Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Tabart
Street
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Named after
Francis
Christopher
Tabart (18301901).
Woolston
Tabart was the mayor of
Hokitika 1869-1877. He
later moved to Opawa and
became an auctioneer and
general merchant in
Christchurch.
See
Source
G R Macdonald
“Advertisements”,
The Press, 24 August dictionary of
Canterbury biographies:
1909, p 12
T3
“Obituary”, The
Lyttelton Times, 13
February 1901, p 5
First mentioned in The Press
in 1909 when “five fine
building sites facing Tabart
Street” are advertised for
sale.
“Advertisements”, Star,
12 February 1901, p 3
First appears in street
directories in 1911.
Taggart
Place
Named after
Sockburn
Barry Taggart
(1935?-2013) and
his brothers, John
and Richard
Taggart.
The Taggart brothers trained The Stables
horses on the site for over 50
years. They owned and
trained Red Hawk, a New
Zealand Cup winner, which
also competed in the
Melbourne Cup.
Taggart Place is the entry
road into The Stables
subdivision at 42 Epsom
Road.
Named in 2011.
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Further information
Riccarton/Wigram
Transport and
Greenspace
Committee agenda
17 February 2011
"Road named after
racing family",
Christchurch Mail,
16 February 2011, p
5
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Tahuna
Street
Tahuna means:
sandbank,
seaside, beach.
Wainoni
Named on 24 April 1963.
Taimana
Lane
Taimana means:
diamond.
Diamond
Harbour
See
First appears in street
directories in 1966.
Developed at 10 Stoddart
Terrace.
Named in 2007.
Tainui
Street
Taiore
Crescent
Named after
taiore, a variety
of harakeke or
flax grown in the
subdivision.
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Source
Information on date
of naming in a letter
sent to the City
Librarian from the
Town Clerk dated 29
April 1963.
Lyttelton/Mt Herbert
Community Board
agenda 21 February
2007
Spreydon
First mentioned in The Press
in 1910 when T. W. Jacobs
advertises 2 new 4-room
houses for sale there.
"Advertisements",
The Press, 19 March
1910, p 11
Marshland
In the first stage of the
Prestons
Prestons subdivision. Named
by Ngāi Tahu, developer of
the subdivision.
Burwood/Pegasus
Community Board
minutes 3 March
2014
Named in 2014.
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Further information
Prestons
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Takahe
Drive
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Named because it Cashmere
is near the Sign of
the Takahe.
Additional information
Developed by Michael John
Wood Davis, a surveyor and
chairman of Cannon Estate
Ltd. in 1959.
First appears in street
directories in 1964.
See
Source
Along the hills: a
history of the
Heathcote Road
Board and the
Heathcote County
Council 1864-1989,
p 229
“New Cashmere subdivision”, The Press,
12 August 1959, p 22
Talbot Road
Northwood
Developed by Belfast
Developments Ltd and Styx
Developments Ltd. The
developers “chose names
suitable for the length of the
road rather than trying to
establish a common theme
throughout the subdivision”.
Named in 2000.
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Shirley/Papanui
Community Board
agenda 29 March
2000
Report of the
Shirley/Papanui
Community Board to
the Council 19 April
2000
Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Talfourd
Place
Talfourd
Street
Named after Sir
Thomas Noon
Talfourd (17951854).
Waltham
Talfourd was a judge and
dramatist.
See
Named to continue the
theme of “poets and writers”
streets of Sydenham,
Addington and Waltham.
The streets were named by a
committee of the Sydenham
Borough Council in January
1880.
Source
Further information
“Borough Council”,
Star, 27 September
1881, p 4
Report of the street
naming committee,
Sydenham Borough
Council minute book
1879-1880, pp 44 &
217, held at
Christchurch City
Council archives.
“Borough Council”,
Star, 20 January 1880, p
3
The construction of Talfourd
Street is mentioned in the
Star in 1881.
First appears in street
directories in 1894.
Becomes Talfourd Place in
1946.
Talisker
Place
Named after the
Talisker
Distillery, the
only distillery on
the Isle of Skye.
Harewood
The Macleods are
shareholders in Nunweek
Estates, developers of this
subdivision off 547
Harewood Road. Their
ancestral home is in the Isle
of Skye.
Named in 1999.
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Benmore
Gardens,
Berisdale Place,
Nunweek
Boulevard, St
Clair Close and
Skyedale Drive.
Fendalton/Waimairi
Community Board
agenda 4 May 1999
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Tama
Terrace
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Named after
Tama, a
racehorse.
Mount
Pleasant
Tama was owned by Charles
William Hammond (1858?1947), a sheep-farmer, and
named by his daughter,
Florence Emma Thomas,
née Hammond, (1886-1962).
She was the wife of Sydney
Harry Thomas (1888?1964), manager of the
Nugget Polish Co. In 1929
they are listed living in Mt
Pleasant Road where this
street was formed.
Named in 1927 by the
Mount Pleasant Burgesses'
Association.
First appears in street
directories in 1930.
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See
Source
Further information
"Heathcote County
Council", The Press,
29 October 1927, p
20
"Obituary", The Press,
23 November 1964, p
15
The Estuary of
Sumner to
Christchurch: a history
Ferrymead: a
of the Avon-Heathcote
Christchurch history, estuary, its
p 209
communities, clubs,
controversies and
Extra information
contributions, p 129
taken from Birth,
Death & Marriage
Historical Records
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Tancred
Street
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Named after
Henry John
Tancred (1816?1884).
Linwood
Tancred bought Rural
Section 29, 50 acres south of
the River Avon,
Christchurch East. He was a
member of the Canterbury
Provincial Council 18531857 and 1864-1876. At
different times he was the
head of the provincial
executive, the speaker and
the deputy superintendent.
He was also the chancellor
of the University of New
Zealand 1871-1884. Tancred
prizes are awarded at
Christ's College.
First mentioned in The Press
in 1884 in a report of a
meeting of the Linwood
Town Board.
First appears in street
directories in 1892.
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See
Source
Further information
Province of
Canterbury, New
Zealand : list of
sections purchased to
April 30 1863, p 1
View the biography of
Henry John Tancred in
the Dictionary of New
Zealand Biography
“Rural Sections
chosen”, The
Lyttelton Times, 8
March 1851, p 3
”Linwood Town
Board”, The Press, 4
December 1884, p 3
“More themes in
street names”, The
Christchurch Mail,
23 February 1999, p
6
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury biographies:
T18
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Tangmere
Place
Named after
Tangmere, a
village, civil
parish and
electoral ward in
the Chichester
District of West
Sussex, England.
Burwood
First appears in street
directories in 1987.
Tangy Loch
Lane
Named after
Tangy Loch in
Kintyre,
Scotland.
Broomfield
Named to continue the
Kintyre Estates
Scottish theme of the street
names in the Kintyre Estates
subdivision.
Source
Further information
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 16 October
2012
Named in 2012.
Tanjong
Lobang
Crescent
Named after
Tanjong Lobang
School, a school
built in Sarawak
by the New
Zealand
Government
under the
Colombo Plan
scheme.
One of the shareholders in
Eminence Investments Ltd
attended the school.
The Groynes Park
subdivision was developed
by Eminence Investments
Ltd, a group of Malaysian
nationals from Sarawak
state, in conjunction with
Groynes Development
(2012) Ltd.
Named in 2015.
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Groynes Park
Shirley/Papanui
Community Board
agenda 14 October
2015
Shirley/Papanui
Community Board
minutes 14 October
2015
Groynes Park
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Tankerville
Road
Suburb
Additional information
Hoon Hay
First mentioned in The Press Hillmorton and
in 1884 in a report of a
Tankerville.
meeting of the Spreydon
Road Board.
Prior to the developing and
naming of the road there was
an area called Tankerville.
First appears in street
directories in 1903.
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See
Source
“Spreydon”, The
Press, 19 April 1884,
p2
Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Tanner
Street
Scott Street
and Station
Street.
Named because
of the street’s
proximity to the
Woolston
Tanneries.
Woolston
Scott Street, or alternatively
Station Street, first appears
in street directories in 1896.
The only resident is William
P. McNeil, the railway
station master.
OR
Named after
William Wilcox
Tanner (18511938).
By 1900 it leads to the
Woolston Railway Station
and is named Scott Street
only.
Re-named Tanner Street in
1922.
Tanner, a boot maker, was
on the Woolston Borough
Council 1893-1900 and also
the member of parliament
for Heathcote and Avon
1890-1908.
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See
Source
Further information
"General news", The
Press, 14 February
1922, p 6
“Street names”, The
Press, 13 September
1924, p 13
"Street names", The
Press, 13 September
1924, p 13
“Obituary”, The Press,
31 December 1938, p
12
“Obituary”, The
Evening Post, 30
December 1938, p 9
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury biographies:
T24
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Tanu Place
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Tanu means: a
swamp plant.
Parklands
In the first stage of the
subdivision of the land
adjacent to Burwood
Hospital. The Community
Board had requested Māori
street names.
See
Source
Further information
Burwood/Pegasus
Community Board
agenda 2 October
2000
Developed by the Ngāi Tahu
Property Group.
Named in 2000.
Tapper
Street
Named after
Charles John
Tapper (18971986).
Wigram
Tapper was a bank clerk of Wigram Skies
South Dunedin. He
graduated from the
Canterbury Flying School on
2 March 1918.
In the Wigram Aerodrome
subdivision by Ngāi Tahu
Property Ltd where the
street names are either of
aircraft or taken from the list
of the first 100 students at
the Flight School established
by Sir Henry Wigram in
1917.
Named in 2010.
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Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 1 June 2010
Great Britain, Royal
Aero Club Aviators’
Certificates, 1910-1950
as found on
www.ancestry.com
The Canterbury (NZ)
Aviation Co. Ltd: the
first one hundred pilots
Wigram Skies
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Tara Street
Taramea
Place
Elliott Street
and Taramea
Street.
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Suburb
Additional information
Riccarton
First appears in street
directories in 1943.
Addington
Elliott Street first appears in
street directories in 1905.
Re-named Taramea Street in
1908. Becomes Taramea
Place in 1983.
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See
Source
Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Tarata Rise
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Named after the
Tarata tree, the
native
Pittosporum
Eugenoides,
known as the
lemonwood tree.
Cashmere
At the time of the naming of
the right-of-way, the
subdivision developers
indicated that they would
probably plant Tarata trees
along the street. They
wanted "a name that is clear
and straightforward in
spelling, sound and
pronunciation, and in
keeping with the existing
road name that the new
right-of-way will run off".
The applicants asked for a
dispensation to describe the
street as a "Rise" as "this is
more in keeping with the
topography". Rights-of-way
are normally Lanes.
In the Halcyon
Development.
Named in 2015.
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See
Source
Further information
Spreydon/Heathcote Halcyon residential
Community Board
hillside development
agenda 17 April 2015
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Tasman
Place
Tatahi
Street
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
The name
commemorates
the first transTasman flight
from Sydney to
Christchurch on
10 September
1928.
Burwood
Continues the aviation
theme of street names in the
area.
Jean Batten
Place, Kingsford
Street, Mascot
Place, Moncrieff
Place, Ulm
Place and
Viscount Place.
Tatahi means: sea Parklands
coast.
First appears in street
directories in 1968.
In the Tumara Park
subdivision where Maori
names were chosen for all
the streets.
Developed by Ngāi Tahu
Property Group Ltd.
Named in 2004.
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Source
Burwood/Pegasus
Community Board
agenda 26 April 2004
Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Tattersalls
Lane
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Named after
Central city
Tattersall’s Hotel
which, in turn,
was named
because of its
proximity to the
Tattersall’s sale
yards in Cashel
Street.
Additional information
A wine and beer licence was
granted for an eating house
known as Tattersall’s in
1871. Tattersall’s Hotel was
built in in 1900 by Paddy
Burke. The hotel was closed
in 1976 when it was sold to
the council and demolished
to make way for a car park.
First mentioned in The Press
in 1898.
First appears in street
directories in 1923. The
Christchurch Bowling Rink,
Shands & Co. Ltd and the
Vacuum Co. of NZ are
listed.
See
Source
Further information
“Supreme Court”,
The Press, 4 June
1898, p 10
The Cyclopedia of New
Zealand, Vol 3, p 308
“The tale of
Tattersall’s”, The
Press, 17 December
1955, p 11
“Hotel sold”, The
Press, 24 June 1971,
p1
“Tattersalls closing
soon”, The Press, 26
March 1976, p 14
“Many fond
memories of
Tattersall’s Hotel”,
The Press, 5 April
1976, p 23
“Tattersalls sold for
demolition”, The
Press, 12 October
1976, p 1
“Arson suspected”,
The Press, 19
January 1977, p 1
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Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Tauiwi
Crescent
Hornby
First appears in street
directories in 1960. Streets
in Hornby are not listed
separately until then.
Taunton
Green
Named after
Papanui
Taunton, which is
located in the
New Forest near
Christchurch in
England. Ponies
roam freely in the
protected
woodlands in the
area.
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February 2016
See
Source
The property at 94 Grants
Road had been used to graze
horses, and the applicants
wanted to retain the open,
rural appeal of the property.
Information supplied
in 2003 by Linda
Mauger in an
interview with
Margaret Harper.
Named in 2000 by
developers Linda and Phil
Mauger (Ben Nevis
Holdings).
Shirley/Papanui
Community Board
agenda 4 October
2000
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Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Taupata
Street
Slater Street Formerly Slater
Redcliffs
and William Street. Named
Street.
after Henry Slater
Richards (1860?1926).
Also formerly
William Street.
Probably named
after Augustus
William Bennetts
(1860-1936).
The two streets were
amalgamated and re-named
Taupata Street on 1
September 1948 when 120
streets were re-named.
Hei Hei
First appears in street
directories in 1960.
Taurima Street was at first
considered to be in Hornby,
streets of which are not
listed until 1960. It was later
listed in Hei Hei.
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See
Slater Street and William
Augusta Street
Street first appear in street
directories in 1910. Richards
was a land agent and
Bennetts was an auctioneer.
Both men were members of
the syndicate that subdivided
part of Redcliffs. Bennetts
was later declared bankrupt.
Slater Street is first
mentioned in The Press in
1892 when a section is
advertised for sale there.
Re-named
Taupata Street.
Taurima
Street
Additional information
Page 16 of 118
Source
Further information
Sumner to
Ferrymead: a
Christchurch history,
pp 206 & 209
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury biographies:
S412
The Port Hills of
Christchurch, p 78
“Obituary, late Mr H. S.
Richards”, The Press,
13 August 1926, p 11
“Advertisements”,
The Press, 23 June
1892, p 8
“New names for
streets”, The Press, 2
June 1948, p 3
“Meeting of
creditors”, The Press, “New street names”,
10 October 1894, p 3 The Press, 24 July
1948, p 2
"Street names
changed: City
council approves
final list", The Press,
24 August 1948, p 3
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Tavendale
Place
Suburb
Additional information
St Albans
Formed on land previously
owned by Ernest Alexander
Ching (1910?-1969), a
carpenter. In 1957 he is
listed as living at 117 Mays
Road where this street was
formed.
Named in 1955.
First appears in street
directories in 1960.
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See
Source
“Names chosen for
city streets”, The
Press, 20 September
1955, p 15
Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Tavender
Street
Seddon
Street
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
Formerly Seddon Woolston
Street. Named
after Richard
John Seddon
(1845-1906).
Seddon Street first appears
in street directories in 1909.
Seddon was the Prime
Minister of New Zealand
1893-1906.
Laura Kent
Street and
Radley Street.
“Borough Councils”, View the biography of
Richard John Seddon in
The Press, 29
the Dictionary of New
October 1909, p 3
Zealand Biography.
Re-named
Tavender Street.
Named after the
Tavender family
who were
residents there.
Tavender Street first appears
in The Press in 1909 in a
report of a meeting of the
Woolston Borough Council
when a Miss Kent asks that
the name of Tavender Street
be changed to Cherwell
Street.
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury biographies:
T31
“Mr J Tavender”,
Akaroa Mail and Banks
Peninsula Advertiser, 6
April 1923, p 1 [The
initial as reported is
wrong. His name was
Francis.]
Annie Kent (1852?-1934)
married Francis Tavender
(1847?-1923) in 1882. Her
sister was Laura Kent.
“The late Miss Laura
Kent”, The Press, 7
April 1925, p 2
Tavender Street first appears
in street directories in 1911.
Tavistock
Place
Named after
Russley
Tavistock, a town
in West Devon,
England.
In the Hyde Park
subdivision where many of
the streets are named after
stately homes of England or
English place names.
First appears in street
directories in 1991.
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Further information
Hyde Park
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Tawa Place
Suburb
Additional information
Parklands
In the Tumara Park
subdivision where Maori
names were chosen for all
the streets.
Developed by Ngāi Tahu
Property Group Ltd.
Named in 2004.
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See
Source
Burwood/Pegasus
Community Board
agenda 26 April 2004
Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Taylors
Avenue
Taylor’s
Road
Named after
Joseph Taylor
(1836-1918).
Bryndwr
Taylor came to New
Zealand in 1863 on the ship
Captain Cook. He became
involved with contracting,
importing carts and
harnesses from England, and
worked on forming roads for
the Riccarton and other
Road Boards. In 1866 he
bought 116 acres, land now
bordered by Jeffreys Road
and Greers Roads. He
named his property
Wairarapa Farm and ran a
small flock of English
Leicester sheep there. His
home was at what became
143 Wairarapa Road (later
167 Wairakei Road). It was
demolished in the early
1930s. The land was
gradually subdivided, and in
1958 the last remaining 1½
acres was sold by one of his
daughters.
Taylor’s Road first appears
in street directories in 1914.
Becomes Taylors Avenue in
1960.
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See
Source
Further information
The Cyclopedia of
New Zealand, Vol 3,
Pt 2, p 412-3
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury biographies:
T66
“Family ownership
of property nears end “Obituary”, The Press,
after 95 years”,
11 November 1918, p 3
Christchurch StarSun, 27 May 1958, p
11
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Taylors
Mistake
Road
Teagarden
Close
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Named because it Taylors
runs through the Mistake
suburb of Taylors
Mistake which, in
turn, is named
because the
master of a vessel
running in there
during the nighttime thought he
was about to pass
over the Sumner
Bar.
The formation of Taylor's
Mistake Road is mentioned
in The Press in 1921 and by
1922 "vehicles were able to
proceed all the way from
Sumner to Taylor's
Mistake…although the road
was not intended for cars".
Taylors Mistake "Sumner items", The
Press, 10 December
1921, p 15
Named after Jack Mairehau
Teagarden (19051964).
Colorado Developments
East Ellington
wanted a common theme of Drive and
famous jazz musicians and
Holiday Drive.
members of the "Big Band"
era for all the streets in their
development off Hills Road.
Named in 2005.
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Source
"Sumner items", The
Press, 21 January
1922, p 3
Shirley/Papanui
Community Board
agenda 6 April 2005
Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Te Aika
Street
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Named after
Marshlands
Edward James Te
Aika Tregerthen,
later known as
Eruera Tihema
Tirikatene (18951967).
Additional information
See
In the first stage of the
Prestons
Prestons subdivision. Named
by Ngāi Tahu, developer of
the subdivision. The name
was at first rejected by the
Community Board but later
reinstated.
Source
Further information
Burwood/Pegasus
Community Board
minutes 3 March
2014
Prestons
Burwood/Pegasus
Community Board
minutes 3 March
2014
Te Aue Davis
View the biography of
Sir Eruera Tiraketene in
the Dictionary of New
Zealand Biography
Named in 2014.
Te Aue
Street
Named after a
taonga harakeke
variety that, in
turn, is named
after Te Aue
"Daisy" Davis
(1925?-2010).
Marshland
Te Aue Davis was a weaver
and historian.
In the first stage of the
Prestons subdivision. Named
by Ngāi Tahu Property
Group, developer of the
subdivision.
Prestons
Prestons
Named in 2014.
Te Awakura
Terrace
Named after the
Te Awakura
creek at Moncks
Bay.
Mount
Pleasant
Named by Walter de Thier
(1883-1973) who owned the
land at Moncks Bay where
the creek flowed.
First appears in street
directories in 1939.
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Sumner to
“Man of many parts”,
Ferrymead: a
The Press, 16 May
Christchurch history, 1973, p 14
p 209
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Tedder
Avenue
Jubilee
Avenue
Named after
Arthur William
Tedder, the 1st
Baron of
Glenguin (18901967).
North New
Brighton
Jubilee Avenue is first
mentioned in the Star in
1894 when sections for sale
there are advertised.
See
First appears in street
directories in 1916.
Re-named Tedder Avenue
on 1 September 1948 when
120 streets were re-named.
Tedder was a British air
marshal.
This name continues the
naval theme of street names
in the North New Brighton
area.
Te Kereme
Street
Te kereme
means: the Ngāi
Tahu claim.
Marshland
In the first stage of the
Prestons
Prestons subdivision. Named
by Ngāi Tahu Property
Group, developer of the
subdivision.
Named in 2014.
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Source
Further information
“Advertisements”,
Star, 1 December
1894, p 8
“New names for
streets”, The Press, 2
June 1948, p 3
New Brighton
signposts to the
past”, Pegasus Post,
19 February 1975, p
2
“New street names”,
The Press, 24 July
1948, p 2
North New Brighton,
1953, p 32
"Street names
changed: City
council approves
final list", The Press,
24 August 1948, p 3
Burwood/Pegasus
Community Board
minutes 3 March
2014
Prestons
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Tekoa Place
Te Korari
Street
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
Named after the
Glens of Tekoa
Station, one of
North
Canterbury's
large back
country sheep
stations in the
Culverden
district.
Hoon Hay
In a subdivision where the
streets are named after rivers
or properties in North
Canterbury.
Ferniehurst
Street, Greta
Place, Kaiwara
Street and
Molesworth
Place.
“Country’s
influence”, The
Press, 11 November
1964, p 30
Korari means: the Marshland
flower stalk of the
harakeke plant.
First appears in street
directories in 1962.
In the first stage of the
Prestons
Prestons subdivision. Named
by Ngāi Tahu Property
Group, developer of the
subdivision.
A main street in the
subdivision.
Named in 2014.
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Further information
“More themes in
street names”, The
Christchurch Mail,
23 February 1999, p
6
Burwood/Pegasus
Community Board
minutes 3 March
2014
Prestons
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Te Kura
Street
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Te Kura means:
the school.
Fendalton
Named because it runs off
Straven Road to
Christchurch Boys’ High
School.
See
Source
Further information
"Advertisements",
The Press, 7 October
1929, p 18
Described as "a new street in
the Te Kura subdivision" in
The Press in 1929.
First appears in street
directories in 1939.
Templar
Street
Templer
Street
Named after John Richmond
Arthur Templer
(1817-1885).
Templer bought 73 River
Road in 1876, a large estate
of 100 acres.
Templer Street first appears
in street directories in 1887.
Made a public street from 1
January 1888.
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: T100
“Sydenham”, The
Press, 22 December
1887, p 6
Becomes Templar Street in
street directories in 1917.
Templetons
Way
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Aidanfield,
Hillmorton
Named in 2012.
Page 25 of 118
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
minutes 4 September
2012
“Deaths”, Star, 8
October 1885, p 2
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Tenby Place
Suburb
Additional information
Avondale
In a Paramount Homes
subdivision.
Named on 15 June 1960.
First appears in street
directories in 1962.
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See
Source
Information on date
of naming in a letter
sent to the City
Librarian from the
Town Clerk dated 20
June 1960.
Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Tennyson
Street
Pipers Lane
and Pipers
Road.
Early informal
Sydenham
names were
Pipers Lane and
Pipers Road.
Named after
George Piper
(1843-1909), who
was also known
as Whistling
Piper.
Re-named
Tennyson Street.
Named after
Alfred Lord
Tennyson (18091892).
Suburb
Additional information
George Piper and his brother
had a brick kiln east of
Colombo Street. Their father
Thomas also worked there.
The business was made
bankrupt in January 1883.
Pipers Lane first appears in
the Star in 1877 in a report
of a meeting of the
Heathcote Road Board.
George Piper was living in
Tennyson Street at the time
of his death in 1909.
Re-named Tennyson Street.
Tennyson was a poet. One
of the “poets and writers”
streets of Sydenham,
Addington and Waltham
named by a committee of the
Sydenham Borough Council
on 19 January 1880.
Tennyson Street first
appears in street directories
in 1894.
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See
Source
Further information
Sydenham: past and
present : a history of
the Borough of
Sydenham from its
foundation in 1877
up to the time of its
amalgamation with
the city of
Christchurch, p 9
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies:P415
“The Heathcote Road
Board”, Star, 28
April 1877, p 2
Report of the street
naming committee,
Sydenham Borough
Council minute book
1879-1880, pp 44 &
217, held at
Christchurch City
Council archives.
“Borough Council”,
Star, 20 January
1880, p 3
Sydenham: the
model borough of
Christchurch : an
informal history, p
23
“Accidents and
fatalities”, Star, 28
December 1909, p 1
“Deaths”, Star, 29
December 1909, p 3
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Tensing
Place
Tensing
Street
Named after
Tensing Norgay
(1914-1986).
Sockburn
Tensing and Sir Edmund
Hillary became the first
climbers to conquer Mount
Everest in 1953.
Hillary Crescent Minutes and report of "New state housing
meeting of Housing block", The Press, 30
Committee of the
January 1953, p 6
Paparua County
Council held on 10
August 1953 & 12
October 1953, held at
Christchurch City
Council archives.
In a block of 28 acres in
Curletts Road between
Blenheim Road and
Riccarton bought by the
government for state
housing in 1953. The land
was formerly owned by
Pyne, Gould, Guinness Ltd.
Named Everest Crescent on
10 August 1953. Re-named
Tensing Crescent on 12
October 1953 as "the name
Everest Crescent had already
been taken".
First appears in street
directories in 1957.
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Source
“General news”, The
Press, 15 September
1953, p 8
Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Te Orewai
Place
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Named after a
hapu of Ngāti
Hine.
Linwood
Off Gilby Street. The name
was selected by the HagleyFerrymead Community
Board after consultation
with the Gilby Residents’
Association and local Māori.
See
Source
“Name of cul-de-sac
after two years”, The
Press, 30 July 1996,
p4
Named in 1996.
Te Pihopa
Way
Te Pihopa means: Halswell
the Bishop.
Named because it was
formed on land owned by
the Catholic Diocese since
the 1880s.
Named in 2003.
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Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 6 August
2003
Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Te Puna
Ora Place
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Te Ora Puna:
means the spring
of life.
Burwood
In a subdivision by Ngāi
Tahu Property Group off
Horseshoe Lake Road.
The street was originally
named Puna Ora Place on 20
October 2008 by the
subdivider’s consultant. The
developers then asked that
the name be changed to
Waikakariki Place because
of the high degree of
significance Ngāi Tahu
place on the word
Waikakariki, the Maori
name for Horseshoe Lake.
The Burwood/Pegasus
Community Board voted on
1 December 2008 to amend
the street name to Te Puna
Ora Place.
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See
Source
Burwood/Pegasus
Community Board
agenda 17 November
2008
Burwood/Pegasus
Community Board
agenda 1 December
2008
Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Te Rama
Place
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Te Rama means:
the light or the
lamp.
Wainoni
Refers to the firework
displays that were held at
Wainoni Park.
See
Bickerton Street
and Tahuna
Street. Also
Professor Bickerton was one Wainoni.
of New Zealand’s bestknown fireworks
enthusiasts.
Named on 24 April 1963.
Te Rau a
Kaka Street
Te Rito
Street
Named after Te
Marshland
Rauakaaka
Nature Reserve in
the Waimakariki
River Regional
Park.
In the second stage of the
Prestons
Prestons subdivision. Named
by Ngāi Tahu Property
Group, developer of the
subdivision.
Rito means: the
newest shoot of
the harakeke
plant.
In the first stage of the
Prestons
Prestons subdivision. Named
by Ngāi Tahu Property
Group, developer of the
subdivision.
Marshland
Named in 2014.
A main street in the
subdivision.
Named in 2014.
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Source
Further information
Professor Bickerton’s View the biography of
Wainoni, p 77
Alexander William
Information on date Bickerton in the
of naming in a letter Dictionary of New
Zealand Biography.
sent to the City
Librarian from the
G R Macdonald
Town Clerk dated 29 dictionary of
April 1963.
Canterbury biographies:
B418
Burwood/Pegasus
Community Board
supplementary
agenda 7 July 2014
Prestons
Burwood Pegasus
Community Board
agenda 21 July 2014
Burwood/Pegasus
Community Board
minutes 3 March
2014
Prestons
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Tern Street
Terrelle
Street
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
Named after the
white-fronted
tern, a sea-bird
that frequents the
south shore.
Southshore
One of six streets running in
alphabetical order from
north to south intersecting
Rockinghorse Road.
Caspian Street,
Godwit Street,
Heron Street,
Penguin Street
and Plover
Street.
“Names chosen for
city streets”, The
Press, 20 September
1955, p 15
Named after
Terrelle, near
Cassino in Italy.
New
Brighton
Patrick Street
and Willryan
Avenue.
Information supplied Roll of souls, Cassino, p
in 2005 by Jack Ryan 37
in an interview with Patrick John Ryan
Margaret Harper.
Named in September 1955.
Private Patrick John Ryan
(1923?-1944), a soldier in
the New Zealand Infantry,
was killed at Terrelle during
World War II. He was a son
of William Nicholas Ryan
(1885?-1950), a contractor,
and brother of Bernie and
Jack Ryan, builders and
developers.
Named by Patrick’s mother,
Mary Catherine Ryan (18921978).
First appears in street
directories in 1960.
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Further information
New Brighton a
regional history
1852-1970, p 121
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Teviotdale
Way
Te Whariki
Street
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
Further information
Named after
Richmond
Teviotdale, the
Hill
25,000 acre sheep
station in North
Canterbury
owned by the
Greenwood
family, notably
George Dean
Greenwood
(1855-1932).
Formed in stage one of the
Greenwood Estate
subdivision on Richmond
Hill.
Greenwood
Farm
Hagley/Ferrymead
Community Board
agenda 27 September
2006
Gloaming, the wonder
horse, pp 87-98
Whariki means: a
woven mat or
carpet.
In a further stage of the
Prestons subdivision
developed by Ngāi Tahu
Property Group.
Report of the
“Obituary”, The Press,
Hagley/Ferrymead
29 August 1932, p 13
Community Board to
the Council meeting
of Thursday 2
November 2006
Named in 2006.
Prestons
Named in 2015.
Te Whenu
Crescent
Whenu means: a
warp or
lengthwise stitch
of a woven
garment.
Marshland
In the first stage of the
Prestons
Prestons subdivision. Named
by Ngāi Tahu Property
Group, developer of the
subdivision.
Named in 2014.
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“Obituary”, The Sun, 29
August 1932, p 4
Burwood/Pegasus
Prestons
Community Board
agenda, 15 June 2015
"Polish settlers
considered for
Prestons street
name", Pegasus Post,
15 June 2015, p 4
Burwood/Pegasus
Community Board
minutes 3 March
2014
Prestons
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Thackeray
Place
Thackeray
Street
Named after
Waltham
William
Makepeace
Thackeray (18111863).
Additional information
See
Source
Thackeray was a novelist
and essayist.
Vienna Street
Report of the street
naming committee,
Sydenham Borough
Council minute book
1879-1880, p 217,
held at Christchurch
City Council
archives.
One of the “poets and
writers” streets of
Sydenham, Addington and
Waltham named by a
committee of the Sydenham
Borough Council on 19
January 1880. Developed on
land owned by Harman and
Stevens, land and
commission agents. They
asked the Sydenham
Borough Council to
complete its formation in
1894.
“Borough Council”,
Star, 20 January
1880, p 3
“Sydenham Borough
Council”, Star, 22
May 1894, p 1
Thackeray Street first
appears in street directories
in 1887. Becomes
Thackeray Place in 1983.
Thackers
Quay
Named because it Woolston
is near Thacker’s
Slipway and also
the Heathcote
River.
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A cul-de-sac serving 15
warehouses at 119 Connal
Street.
Named in 1999.
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Hagley/Ferrymead
Community Board
agenda 3 November
1999
Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Thames
Street
Toon’s Road Formerly Toons
Road. Named
after John Toon
(1835?-1918).
Suburb
Additional information
Mairehau
Tenders were called for the
forming and metalling of
Toon’s Road in 1870. Toon
won the contract.
Re-named
Thames Street.
Named after the
Thames River
which passes
through London.
The Brae
The Gate
Named after The Mount
Brae, the Scottish Pleasant
home of Robert
Taylor Smith
(1891?-1956).
Named after the
Yaldhurst
"Gate", a term
given to the door
at the entrance to
the Delamain
Cellars where the
cognac matures.
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See
Toon’s Road first appears in
street directories in 1892.
Toon, a farmer of St Albans,
is a resident in 1896.
Re-named Thames Road in
1916.
Smith was for many years a
motorman on the Sumner
tram route.
First appears in street
directories in 1940. Smith is
a resident.
In the Delamain subdivision. Delamain
Named in 2007.
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Source
Further information
“Local and General”, “Advertisements”, The
Star, 20 May 1870, p Press, 18 November
2
1918, p 1
“Re John Toon”, The “Street names”, The
Press, 30 August
Press, 13 September
1892, p 6
1924, p 13
“General news”, The
Press, 6 June 1916, p
6
“Naming of streets in
new subdivisions”,
The Press, 1
November 1958, p
10
The Port Hills of
Christchurch, p 99
The Estuary of
Christchurch: a history
of the Avon-Heathcote
estuary, its
communities, clubs,
controversies and
contributions, p 131
Riccarton/Wigram
Delamain cognac
Community Board
Transport and
Roading Committee
agenda 29 June 2007
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
The Kilns
Named because
Hillsborough First appears in street
the street was
directories in 1991.
formed on the site
of the Glenmore
Brick & Tile Co.
Ltd.
The Lagoon
Named because
the street is near
the Brooklands
lagoon.
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Brooklands
Named in 2008.
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See
Source
Further information
Alderson Street
and Peartree
Lane. Also
Glenmore
Estate.
History of quarries
and brick works in
and around
Christchurch, 1973
“Story of Glenmore
began in 1851”, The
Press, 12 September
1970, p 5
Shirley/Papanui
Community Board
Greenspace Traffic
Works Committee
agenda 18 August
2008
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
The Oval
Suburb
Additional information
See
Hillmorton
In the first stage of Linden
Grove, a Ngāi Tahu Property
Group subdivision
developed on the site of the
former Sunnyside Hospital.
Spreydon/Heathcote
Albion Lane,
Community Board
Benjamin
agenda 17 July 2007
Mountfort
Close, John
Campbell
Crescent,
Levinge Lane,
Linden Grove
Avenue,
Pavilion
Crescent, Spruce
Lane, The
Wickets, The
Willows,
Thomas Cane
Lane and Yew
Tree Lane.
Named in 2007.
Source
Also Linden
Grove.
The Ridge
Kennedys
Bush
Named by the developers,
Rock Hill Ltd., who chose
names having an association
with the old Halswell
Quarry.
Named in 2003.
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Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 6 August
2003
Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
The Rise
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Named because it Mount
is a short cul-de- Pleasant
sac rising off Mt
Pleasant Road.
Additional information
See
Source
Further information
First appears in street
directories in 1955.
The Rocks
Kennedys
Bush
Named in 2001 by the
developers, Rockhill Ltd.,
who chose street names
having an association with
the old Halswell Quarry.
The Runway
Wigram
In the Wigram Aerodrome
subdivision by Ngāi Tahu
Property Ltd where the
street names have an
aviation theme.
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda January 2001
Wigram Skies
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 28 February
2012
Wigram Skies
The Spur, Sumner
View the biography of
Samuel Hurst Seager in
the Dictionary of New
Zealand Biography.
Named in 2012.
The Spur
Named after The Clifton
Spur, the property
of Samuel Hurst
Seager (18551933).
Hurst Seager subdivided and
sold his property at auction
in 1914. It was on the corner
of Nayland Street and the
Christchurch-Sumner Road.
First appears in street
directories in 1957.
The Stables
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Halswell
Developed post-1997.
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Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
The Terrace
The Terrace
The Tors
Suburb
Additional information
Governors
Bay
Developed post-1997.
Named to reflect Mount
the topographical Pleasant
features of the
site.
Developed at 310 Mt
Pleasant Road by Cambridge
Terrace Ltd.
Named after the
cluster of high
rocks behind
Castle Rock.
Developed at 118 Port Hills
Road by Horncastle Homes.
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Heathcote
Valley
Named in 2004.
Named in 2006.
Page 39 of 118
See
Source
Hagley/Ferrymead
Community Board
agenda 1 September
2004
Hagley/Ferrymead
Community Board
agenda 20 December
2006
Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
The Wickets
Suburb
Additional information
See
Hillmorton,
Middleton
In the first stage of Linden
Grove, a Ngāi Tahu Property
Group subdivision
developed on the site of the
former Sunnyside Hospital.
Spreydon/Heathcote
Albion Lane,
Community Board
Benjamin
agenda 17 July 2007
Mountfort
Close, John
Campbell
Crescent,
Levinge Lane,
Linden Grove
Avenue,
Pavilion
Crescent, Spruce
Lane, The Oval,
The Willows,
Thomas Cane
Lane and Yew
Tree Lane. Also
Linden Grove.
Named in 2007.
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Source
Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
The Willows
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Named after the
Hillmorton,
willow trees on
Middleton
the site before the
subdivision was
developed.
Additional information
See
In the first stage of Linden
Grove, a Ngāi Tahu Property
Group subdivision
developed on part of the
former gardens of Sunnyside
Hospital.
Spreydon/Heathcote
Albion Lane,
Community Board
Benjamin
agenda 17 July 2007
Mountfort
Close, John
Campbell
Crescent,
Levinge Lane,
Linden Grove
Avenue,
Pavilion
Crescent, Spruce
Lane, The Oval,
The Wickets,
Thomas Cane
Lane and Yew
Tree Lane. Also
Linden Grove.
Named in 2007.
Therese
Street
Spreydon
First mentioned in The Press
in 1927.
First appears in street
directories in 1930.
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Source
"Advertisements",
The Press, 14 April
1927, p 19
Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Third Street York Street
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Formerly York
Street. Named
after York Street
in the business
area of Belfast,
Ireland.
Belfast
Formed when the area was
first subdivided in 1882.
Re-named Third
Street.
Thirlmere
Lane
Named after
Thirlmere, a
reservoir in the
English Lake
District in
Cumbria.
Source
A short history of
Belfast, 1949
Named York Street to
continue the Irish theme of
street names in Belfast.
Re-named Third Street.
Westmorland Named to continue the
theme in the subdivision of
naming streets after places
in historic Westmorland in
England, since 1974 part of
Cumbria.
First appears in street
directories in 1995.
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See
Page 42 of 118
Westmorland
The Port Hills of
Christchurch, p 248
Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Thomas
Street
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Named after
Captain Joseph
Thomas (b.
1803?).
Linwood
Thomas was the Canterbury Jollie Street and
Association’s surveyor sent Nalder Place.
to lay out the city and survey
the provinces.
In a group of three streets
named after early
Canterbury personalities.
The name was
recommended by the
Canterbury Centennial
Historical committee.
In a state housing
subdivision in Smith's block.
Named in 1938.
First appears in street
directories in 1940.
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See
Source
Further information
"General news", The
Press, 20 December
1938, p 10
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury biographies:
T144
View the biography of
Joseph Thomas in the
Dictionary of New
Zealand Biography.
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Thomas
Cane Lane
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Named after
Thomas Cane
(1839-1905).
Hillmorton,
Middleton
Spreydon/Heathcote
Albion Lane,
Community Board
Benjamin
agenda 17 July 2007
Mountfort
Close, John
Campbell
Crescent,
Levinge Lane,
In the first stage of Linden
Grove, a Ngāi Tahu Property Linden Grove
Avenue,
Group subdivision
developed on the site of the Pavilion
former Sunnyside Hospital. Crescent, Spruce
Lane, The Oval,
Named in 2007.
The Wickets,
The Willows
and Yew Tree
Lane.
Cane, an artist and architect,
was the provincial architect
for Canterbury. He may
have been involved with
extensions to Sunnyside
Hospital.
Also Linden
Grove.
Thoresby
Mews
Named after
Thoresby Hall, a
grade 1 listed
19th century
country house in
Budby,
Nottinghamshire.
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Avonhead
In the Hyde Park
subdivision where many of
the streets are named after
stately homes of England.
First appears in street
directories in 1995.
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Hyde Park
Source
Further information
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury biographies:
C100
The Cyclopedia of New
Zealand, Vol 3, p 285
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Thorness
Street
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Named after
Avondale
Thorness Bay in
the Isle of Wight.
Additional information
See
Source
In a subdivision between the
Avon River, west of the
Bower Bridge and the
northern end of the
Avondale Golf Course of a
50 acre farm formerly
belonging to Stewart
Clendinning Hampton
(1908-1993). Developed
from 1969 by MerritBeazley Homes Ltd.
Binstead Place,
Calbourne Lane,
Chale Lane,
Cowes Street,
Cowper Place,
Culver Place,
Hulverstone
Drive and
Winnipeg Place.
"Big Wainoni
subdivision", The
Press, 20 June 1969,
p1
All the streets are named
after places on the Isle of
Wight.
First appears in street
directories in 1987.
Thornhill
Place
Sockburn
First appears in street
directories in 1991.
Thornlea
Place
Halswell
First appears in street
directories in 1995.
Thornton
Street
Mairehau
First mentioned in The Press
in 1882 when property for
sale there is advertised.
First appears in street
directories in 1892.
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“Advertisements”,
The Press, 8 July
1882, p 4
Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Thornycroft Thorneycroft Named after
Street
Thorneycroft, a
Street
house built there
in 1893.
Suburb
Additional information
Fendalton
Thorneycroft was once the
home of George Humphreys
(1848-1934). He moved to
Daresbury in Fendalton
Road in 1901.
In street directories of 1924,
George Gerard (1867?1948), who also owned
Snowdon Station, is listed
living at 31 Glandovey Road
where this street was
formed. He advertised this
property for sale, 16 acres or
6.47 hectares with
"frontages to Glandovey
Road, Wai Wetu Street and
Bryndwr Road" in 1929.
Thorneycroft Street appears
in further advertisements of
the property for sale in 1930.
Gerard later moved to 14
Stratford Street.
Thorneycroft Street first
appears in street directories
in 1933. The "e" was later
dropped from the name.
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See
Source
Further information
Fendall’s legacy: a
history of Fendalton
and north-west
Christchurch, p 47
Living with the past:
historical buildings of
the Waimairi District, p
81
“Fendalton
property”, The Press,
17 September 1929,
p 12
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury biographies:
H871
"Advertisements",
The Press, 15 March
1930, p 22
"A beautiful home",
The Press, 12 October
1929, p 6
“Obituary”, The Press,
8 March 1934, p 7
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Thorpe
Street
Sam Street
and Harper
Street.
Named after
Archdeacon
Richard Joshua
Thorpe (18381920).
Sumner
Sam Street is first mentioned
in The Press in 1896.
First appears in street
directories in 1925.
Re-named Harper Street in
1933.
Re-named Thorpe Street on
1 September 1948 when 120
streets were re-named.
Thorpe was the vicar of
Sumner 1902-1912.
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See
Source
Further information
“A long career”, The
Press, 7 February 1912,
"Sumner", The Press, p 5
29 December 1896, p “Obituary”, The Press,
3
25 October 1920, p 6
Sumner-Redcliffs
Historical Society
"Street names
changed: City
council approves
final list", The Press,
24 August 1948, p 3
The Blain Biographical
Directory of Anglican
Clergy in the Pacific
“New names for
streets”, The Press, 2
June 1948, p 3
“New street names”,
The Press, 24 July
1948, p 2
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Thorrington Underhill
Road/Street
Road
was
incorporated
into
Thorrington
Road.
Origin of name
Suburb
Named after
Cashmere
Thorrington, a
house built on the
banks of the
Heathcote River,
near the
Cashmere Hills.
Additional information
Thorrington was the home
Thorrington
of an estate agent, Charles
Clark (1824-1906), who
arrived in Christchurch in
1856. He was living at
Thorrington at the time of
his marriage in 1865. His
son, Leonard Ernest Clark
(1871-1932), built nearby
Wairoa homestead about
1905 and his grandson Ernle
was a celebrated aviator who
lived at Thorrington for
about 25 years. At one time
it was said to have the best
private garden in
Christchurch and the Clarks
hosted large garden parties
here.
First mentioned in The Press
in 1904 when some of the
land surrounding
Thorrington was subdivided
into 62 sections and sold.
First appears in street
directories in 1917.
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See
Page 48 of 118
Source
Further information
“Important land
sale”, The Press, 2
December 1904, p 6
“Old homestead
resplendent in its
seclusion”, The Press, 9
February 1994, p 43
Was it all cricket? p
22
"Marriage", Timaru
Herald, 15 July 1865,
p4
“Obituary”, The
Press, 31 December
1906, p 8
“Obituary”, The
Press, 1 November
1932, p 13
"Death of Mr L. E.
Clark, pioneer
airman", The Press,
28 December 1964, p
12
Map of Christchurch
shewing tram routes
and public buildings
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
The section of Thorrington
Road running from
Cashmere Road to just past
Wherstead Street was
formerly named Underhill
Road/Street. Mentioned in
The Press in 1904. Shown
on maps 1912-1950.
Thurso
Place
Named after
New
Thurso, a town on Brighton
the north coast of
Scotland.
The developer may have had Caithness Street
some connection with
and Castletown
Thurso. It is five miles west Place.
of the town of Castletown.
Thurso Place, Caithness
Street and Castletown Place
are in close proximity.
First appears in street
directories in 1972.
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Information supplied
in 2008 by Adrian
Kirso in an interview
with Margaret
Harper.
Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Ticehurst
Road
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Named after
Ticehurst in
Sussex.
Lyttelton
The Rev. Benjamin Woolley Dudley Road
Dudley (1805-1892) served and Flimwell
as a curate in this parish
Lane.
1851-1859.
First mentioned in The
Lyttelton Times in 1851
when land for sale there is
advertised.
Source
The Blain Biographical
"Advertisements",
The Lyttelton Times, Directory of Anglican
Clergy in the Pacific
21 June 1851, p 4
“Advertisements”,
The Press, 18 June
1898, p 10
Named after
Ticehurst in
Sussex.
Lyttelton
The Rev. Benjamin Woolley Dudley Road
Dudley (1805-1892) served and Flimwell
as a curate in this parish
Lane.
1851-1859.
First mentioned in The
Lyttelton Times in 1859.
Declared by the Lyttelton
Borough Council to be a
public street from 1 August
1898.
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G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury biographies:
D466
“Obituary”, The Press,
30 August 1892, p 6
Declared by the Lyttelton
Borough Council to be a
public street from 1 August
1898.
Ticehurst
Terrace
Further information
"Advertisements",
Lyttelton Times, 28
October 1857, p 5
The Blain Biographical
Directory of Anglican
Clergy in the Pacific
“Advertisements”,
The Press, 18 June
1898, p 10
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury biographies:
D466
“Obituary”, The Press,
30 August 1892, p 6
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Tika Street
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Tika means:
straight.
Riccarton
The area once belonged to
the Metropolitan Trotting
Club and streets were named
by Dudley Thomas
Gainsford (1918-1977) of
the Riccarton Borough
Council.
One of the street names
chosen in 1940 for the State
housing subdivision between
Riccarton Road and
Blenheim Road. The names
were selected "as far as
possible for their
appropriateness".
Tilbury
Place
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Dallington
First appears in street
directories 1960.
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See
Source
“New streets
named”, The Press,
18 June 1940, p 6
Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Tilford
Street
Tilford Road Named after
Tilford House in
Ferry Road, the
home of Robert
James Loughnan
(1808-1889)
which, in turn,
was named after
Tilford, a village
near Farnham in
Surrey, England.
Tillman
Avenue
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Woolston
Loughnan was a judge in the
service of the British East
India Company. He and his
family settled in Woolston
in 1868. His obituary says
he died at his home, Tilford
House, in Ferry Road.
School Lane Formerly School Strowan
and School Lane and School
Road. Named
Road.
because it leads to
the Blighs Road
School (later
Waimairi
School).
Re-named
Tillman Avenue.
Named after
Harry Tillman
(1881-1957).
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Tilford Road is first
mentioned in the Star in
1899 in a report of a meeting
of the Woolston Borough
Council. Tilford Street first
appears in street directories
in 1901.
See
Source
Further information
“Obituary”, The
Lyttelton Times, 22
June 1889, p 6
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury biographies:
L347
"Advertisements",
The Press, 22 June
1889, p 3
View the biography of
Robert Andrew
“Borough Councils”, Loughnan in the
Dictionary of New
Star, 10 October
Zealand Biography.
1899, p 4
(Biography of
Loughnan’s son)
School Lane first appears in
street directories in 1929.
Becomes School Road in
1930.
Waimairi School
golden jubilee
celebrations, 17th20th April 1964
Re-named Tillman Avenue
in 1939.
Christchurch City
Council minutes,
Bylaws, Finance and
Departmental
committee report, 11
September 1939 held
at Christchurch City
Council archives.
There were two School
Roads in St Albans. Tillman,
an engineer, was a member
of both the Papanui and
Christchurch Beautifying
Associations and also
chairman of the Waimairi
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Chairman's report to
“Obituary”, The Press,
31 May 1957, p 7
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
school committee. In 1947
he arranged for service
groups, including the
Returned Services
Association, to establish
trees in fifteen streets in the
Papanui area and for plaques
to be erected as a memorial
to those who served in
World War II. Streets that
had the most war casualties
among their residents were
chosen. Tillman went
around the locality asking
15/- per family for the
project.
Timberlands
Terrace
Named "to reflect Parklands
the locality of the
subdivision
together with the
materials used to
enhance it".
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Name proposed by the
development company,
Smith Developments Ltd.
In the Waitikiri Lake
subdivision.
Named in 2004.
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Source
Further information
the water supply and
works committee,
Christchurch City
Council, 14
November 1945, held
at Christchurch City
Council archives.
Information about
the number of
memorial streets and
how they were
chosen supplied in
2010 by Janet
Tillman of the
Papanui Heritage
Group and a
granddaughter-in-law
of Harry Tillman.
Waitikiri
Burwood Pegasus
"Waitikiri subdivision",
Community board
The Press, 7 November
agenda 1 March 2004 2000, p 18
Waitikiri
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Timbers
Lane
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Named because
Parklands
the land where
the right-of-way
was developed
had previously
been occupied by
a timber mill.
Tinokore
Street
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Hei Hei
Additional information
Named by the family
associated with Alpine
Sawmills Limited.
Named in 1999.
First appears in street
directories in 1960. Streets
in Hornby are not listed
separately until then.
Tinokore Street was later
considered to be in the
suburb of Hei Hei.
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See
Source
Burwood/Pegasus
Community Board
agenda 1 February
1999
Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Tintern
Avenue
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Named after
Tintern Abbey.
Avonhead
Named in 1956 when
Waimairi County
councillors were keen to use
a surplus nameplate. Tintern
Abbey is situated four miles
north of Chepstow in
Monmouthshire, South
Wales. It had been intended
that Wai-iti Terrace be renamed Tintern Avenue
because of its proximity to
Chepstowe Street (later
Chepstow Avenue).
[The newspaper source
appears to suggest that the
street was formerly Chereton
Avenue but this does not
appear in street directories.]
Tiora Place
Henley
Place
Upper
Riccarton
Henley Place first appears in
street directories in 1950.
Re-named Tiora Place in
1951.
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See
Source
“Waimairi Street
renaming”, The
Press, 21 September
1956, p 7
Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Ti Rakau
Drive
Suburb
Additional information
Woolston
The developer said he
wanted the name Te Rakau
Drive, meaning cabbage
tree, but checks turned up
several different meanings
for “rakau”, none of which
was “cabbage tree”.
See
Source
Further information
"Naming problems",
The Christchurch
Mail, 9 February
1999, p 8
Named in 1995.
Tiroroa
Lane
Tisbury
Lane
Tisch Place
Tiroroa means:
long view or
extensive view.
Huntsbury
Named after
Tisbury, a large
village and civil
parish west of
Salisbury in
Wiltshire,
England.
Cracroft
Named after
Philipp Tisch
(1819-1892).
Belfast
Developed at 200 Huntsbury
Avenue.
Spreydon/Heathcote
Community Board
agenda 7 April 1998
Named in 1998.
Developed on the
Oxenbridge Estate.
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 12 July 2005
Named in 2005.
Tisch was a farmer.
First appears in street
directories in 1985.
Johns Road
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury biographies:
T273
A short history of
Belfast, 1949
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Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Titoki Street
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Named after the
titoki tree, native
to New Zealand.
Riccarton
The name continues the
theme of street names in
Riccarton which
commemorate the Deans
families' efforts to conserve
the native forest trees in
Riccarton. The naming was
also designed to perpetuate
the Maori names of plants.
See
Source
Further information
“Advertisements”,
The Press, 22
January 1938, p 26
Described in 1938 as being
in a new subdivision of the
Riccarton Estate.
First appears in street
directories in 1940.
Tivoli Place
Tobins Lane
Named after
Cecil Alexander
Tobin (18561938) and his
wife, Sarah
Elizabeth Tobin,
née Browne,
(1867-1930).
Bishopdale
First appears in street
directories in 1987.
Burwood
Tobin was the vicar of All
Saints Anglican Church,
Burwood 1910-1937.
The name was suggested to
the developer by Richard
Greenaway about 2000.
Information supplied The Blain Biographical
in 2008 by Richard
Directory of Anglican
Clergy in the Pacific
Greenaway.
“Obituary”, The Press,
12 April 1938, p 12
“Obituary”, Evening
Post, 12 April 1938, p 7
Burwood All Saints’
Church 1877-1977
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Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Toledo Place
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Named after
Toledo, a city in
central Spain.
Mount
Pleasant
See
Source
Further information
In a group of streets with
Spanish names.
The Port Hills of
Christchurch, p 95
Named by the developer,
Bernard Blogg, one of the
partners in Blogg Brothers
Ltd. He hoped that Spanishstyle houses would be built.
Additional
information supplied
in 2008 by Bede
Cosgriff (d. 2011) in
an interview with
Margaret Harper.
"Foremost developer
and donor", The Press,
22 October 2005, p D19
First appears in street
directories in 1976.
Tomes Road
Named after
Thomas Bennett
Tomes (1821?1875).
St Albans
Tomes, a grazier, bought
Rural Section 276, 50 acres
in Papanui Road. His
daughter, Emma, married
John Stanley Monck (18451929).
A Papanui war memorial
street.
First mentioned in the Star
in 1882 and first appears in
street directories in 1892.
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Bennett Street,
Norfolk Street
and Scotston
Street. Also
Tillman Avenue.
Province of
Canterbury, New
Zealand : list of
sections purchased to
April 30 1863, p 7
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury biographies:
T298
"Death", The Press, 30
“Advertisements”,
September 1875, p 2
Star, 30 May 1882, p
Chairman's report to the
3
water supply and works
committee,
Christchurch City
Council, 14 November
1945, held at
Christchurch City
Council archives.
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Tompkins
Lane
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Named after John Burwood
Tompkins
(1788?-1878).
Additional information
Tompkins, a tinplate worker,
arrived on the Clontarf in
1858. He bought Rural
Section 3099, 20 acres on
the Horse-shoe Lagoon. In
the 1873-1874 electoral roll
his name is spelt
Thompkins.
Developed by Thornton
Estates (2002) Ltd and
formed at 148 Broomfield
Terrace.
Named in 2003.
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See
Source
“Shipping news”,
The Lyttelton Times,
29 December 1858, p
7
Province of
Canterbury, New
Zealand : list of
sections purchased to
April 30 1863, p 67
Burwood/Pegasus
Community Board,
15 September 2003
Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Tomrich
Street
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Named after
Thomas James
Richards (18871964).
Aranui
Richards was an injured
World War I veteran who
supplemented his pension by
farming poultry on a two
acre, two rood (just over one
hectare) property at 360
Breezes Road. He and his
neighbours sold their land to
Paramount Homes for a
1960 subdivision.
Named on 15 March 1961
and extended through to
Shortland Street in 1966.
First appears in street
directories in 1964.
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See
Source
Aranui & Wainoni
history;
Christchurch, New
Zealand, p 216
Information on dates
in letters sent to the
City Librarian from
the Town Clerk dated
17 March 1961 and
13 December 1966.
Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
Further information
Tonbridge
Street
St James
Terrace
Named after
Tonbridge
School,
Tonbridge, Kent.
Merivale
“St James Terrace, Carlton
paddock”, is first mentioned
in the Star in 1881 in a
report of a meeting of the
Drainage Board.
Cheltenham
Street, Naseby
Street, Repton
Street, Rossall
Street, Rugby
Street,
Sherborne
Street,
Shrewsbury
Street,
Stoneyhurst
Street, and
Winchester
Street.
“Drainage Board”,
Star, 12 July 1881, p
3
“Street names”, The
Press, 6 October 1909,
p6
First appears in street
directories in 1890.
Re-named Tonbridge Street
in 1909.
One of a number of streets
in Merivale named after
English public schools.
Tonga Place Tonga Street Tonga means:
south.
Riccarton
One of the street names
chosen in 1940 for the State
housing subdivision between
Riccarton Road and
Blenheim Road. The names
were selected "as far as
possible for their
appropriateness". This street
is in the southern section of
the subdivision.
Becomes Tonga Place in
1987.
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“Street naming”, The
Press, 3 November
1909, p 3
“Would road by any
other name stay as
street”, Pegasus Post,
12 July 1978, p 16
“New streets
named”, The Press,
18 June 1940, p 6
Riccarton, the
founding borough: a
short history,
Canterbury’s
founding settlement,
p 150
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Knights Stream
Park
Tongariro
Street
Named after
Halswell
Tongariro
National Park in
the Central North
Island.
In the Knights Stream Park
subdivision where streets
have been named with a
common theme of World
Heritage sites and national
and major parks around the
world.
Tonks Street
Named after
William Tonks
(1858-1912).
Tonks was of Tonks Norton,
auctioneers. They were
involved in the subdivision
of the land in this area in the
1890s.
North New
Brighton
First mentioned in the Star
in 1911.
First appears in street
directories in 1919.
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Source
Further information
Knights Stream Park
"New Brighton", The G R Macdonald
Press, 5 April 1911, dictionary of
Canterbury biographies:
p3
T309
“New Brighton’s
early mayors closely
involved with area”,
Pegasus Post, 19
March 1975, p 2
“Obituary”, The
Lyttelton Times, 22
May 1912, p 11
"Obituary", The Press,
21 May 1912, p 7
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Toorak
Avenue
Mirm Street
Named after
Avonhead
Toorak, a
Melbourne
suburb. The word
"Toorak" may
have been derived
from Aboriginal
words of similar
pronunciation
meaning reedy
swamp or black
crow.
Torbeg
Lane
Suburb
Named after
Torbeg, a village
on the Isle of
Arran in the Firth
of Clyde,
Scotland.
Additional information
Mirm Street first appears in
street directories in 1960.
First appears in street
directories in 1966.
Torea Lane
Named after the
torea, a sea-bird
that frequents the
south shore.
Southshore
First appears in street
directories in 1976.
Torlesse
Named after the
Avonside
Priscilla Catherine Torlesse
(1824?-1896) was a niece of
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Further information
Waimairi County
Council minutes
book 1962, CH
357/51, pp 476 &
512A, held at
Christchurch City
Council archives.
The name was chosen by the
street’s residents who had
felt there was confusion with
Merrin Street and Miro
Street.
In Stage 6 and 7 of the
Kintyre Estates subdivision,
where streets are named
after names and features in
the locality of Kintyre in
Scotland.
Source
“A bit odd”, The
Press, 20 July 1962,
p8
Re-named Toorak Avenue in
1962.
Named in 2015.
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See
Kintyre Estates
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 17 March
2015
Kintyre Estates
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
minutes 17 March
2015
Information supplied Bygone days
in 2006 by Richard
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Street
Former
name
Origin of name
Torlesse family.
Suburb
Additional information
Edward Gibbon Wakefield
and sister of the Rev. Henry
Torlesse and Charles Obins
Torlesse. She lived at 238
Gloucester Street and is
buried at Linwood
Cemetery.
Charles Obins Torlesse
(1825-1866) was a surveyor
and a nephew of Edward
Gibbon Wakefield. He
arrived in Canterbury in
1841 and established himself
at Fernside, Rangiora. He
died in England.
Frances Torlesse (18251925) worked with Anglican
social welfare groups. In
1893 she was honorary
superintendent of the Home
of Refuge, Linwood. She
also lived at 238 Gloucester
Street but died in England.
The Rev. Henry Torlesse
(1832-1870) was a vicar of
Banks Peninsula.
In a government housing
subdivision. The name was
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See
Source
Further information
Greenaway.
The Blain Biographical
“General news”, The Directory of Anglican
Press, 5 April 1938, Clergy in the Pacific
p 10
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury biographies:
T328, T329, T329a
“Death”, Star, 19 June
1896, p 3
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
Further information
submitted by the Director of
Housing Construction, Mr
A. Tyndall.
Named in 1938.
First appears in street
directories in 1939.
Torquay
Place
Torquay
Street
Named after
Torquay in
Devon.
Bryndwr
Torquay Street first appears
in street directories in 1960.
Becomes Torquay Place in
1962.
Torrens
Road
Torrens’
Road
Named after
James Torrens
(1839-1897).
Middleton
Torrens was a farmer of
Spreydon.
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Torrens’ Road appears as
early as 1886 in Spreydon
Baptist Church register
entries and first appears in
street directories in 1896.
Becomes Torrens Road in
1901.
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G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury biographies:
T331
"Obituary", Star, 3 July
1897, p 5
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Torvill and
Dean Lane
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Named after
Cashmere
Jayne Torvill
(1957-) and
Christopher Dean
(1958-).
Additional information
See
Torvill and Dean were
famed for their ice dancing,
winning a gold medal at the
1984 Winter Olympics.
Named after
Gordon Harry
Saywell Tosland
(1924-1996).
Wigram
Developed on the former
site of Ice Rinks
Christchurch Ltd., 12
Centaurus Road, Cashmere.
Wing Commander Tosland
was Wigram base
commander February 1966January 1967.
Named to continue the
theme of naming streets in
Wigram Skies after people
involved in the air force in
New Zealand. There are a
number of streets named
after former RNZAF
Wigram Base commanders.
Named in 2013.
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Further information
“More themes in
street names”, The
Christchurch Mail,
23 February 1999, p
6
“Street names baffle,
delight residents”,
The Press, 12 May
2007, p A12
First appears in street
directories in 1991.
Tosland
Street
Source
Wigram Skies
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 6 August
2013
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
minutes 6 August
2013
Wigram: the birthplace
of military aviation in
New Zealand
Wigram Skies
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Totara
Street
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
Further information
Named after the
Podocarpus
totara, a New
Zealand native
tree.
Fendalton,
Riccarton,
Upper
Riccarton
Named to commemorate the
Deans families' efforts to
conserve the native forest
trees in Riccarton. The
naming was also designed to
perpetuate the Maori names
of plants.
Korari Street
(re-named
Daresbury
Lane), Harakeke
Street, Hinau
Street, Konini
Street, Matai
Street and Puriri
Street.
"News of the day",
The Press, 7
December 1892, p 4
View the biography of
John Deans in the
Dictionary of New
Zealand Biography.
Named in 1892 when John
Deans (1853-1902) split up
150 acres of the Deans
Estate into 105 lots which
were auctioned.
First mentioned in The Press
in 1908 when land for sale
there is advertised.
First appears in street
directories in 1909.
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“Advertisements”,
The Press, 15 June
1908, p 12
"Obituary", The Press,
20 June 1902, p 2
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Tothill Place
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Named after
Thomas Webb
Compton Tothill
(1898-1974).
Papanui
Tothill was a pupil, and
later, a teacher at Christ’s
College 1923-1960. He was
acting headmaster in 1958.
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See
Blanch Street,
Bourne
Crescent,
Condell Avenue,
Flower Street,
One of the Papanui streets
developed on land belonging Harris Crescent,
Hudson Street,
to Christ’s College. 500
houses were planned for the Merton Place,
Moreland
80 acre block.
Avenue and
First appears in street
Richards
directories in 1960.
Avenue.
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Source
Further information
“A talent for
“Street naming
practices”, The Press, friendship”, The Press,
1 June 1957, p 4
27 December 1974, p
12
“Papanui's newest
shopping centre",
The Papanui Herald,
16 January 1959, p 4
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Tovey Street Bligh Street
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
Further information
Formerly Bligh
Street. Named
after John Bligh
(1838?-1896).
New
Brighton
Bligh and his wife,
Susannah, owned Bligh’s
Gardens, which was formed
on an area of wasteland in
New Brighton.
Mountbatten
Street
“Plan shewing area
affected by proposed
New Brighton Loan”,
Z Arch 201
Susannah Bligh
“Advertisements”,
The Press, 21
December 1888, p 5
“New street names”,
The Press, 24 July
1948, p 2
Re-named Tovey
Street. Named
after Sir John
Cronyn Tovey,
1st Baron Tovey
(1885-1971).
Bligh Street is first
mentioned in The Press in
1888 when land is
advertised for sale there.
First appears in street
directories in 1913.
Re-named Tovey Street on 1
September 1948 when 120
streets were re-named.
Tovey was a Royal Navy
admiral who served in both
World Wars.
This name continues the
theme of naming streets in
New Brighton after British
Admirals, explorers and
fighting seafarers.
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New Brighton: a
regional history,
1852-1970, p 137
"Street names
changed: City
council approves
final list", The Press,
24 August 1948, p 3
“New names for streets”
The Press, 2 June 1948,
p3
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Tower
Street
Walker
Street
Formerly Walker
Street. Named
after a builder
named Walker
who built a large
water tower
which supplied
Hornby’s first
subdivision
which opened
about 1927.
Hornby
Walker's Road is first
mentioned in The Press in
1934.
"Domain at Hornby",
The Press, 6 July
1934, p 20
Tower Street first appears in
street directories in 1960.
Streets in Hornby are not
listed separately until then.
"Seeking new
colourful names",
The Christchurch
Mail, 2 March 1999,
p 12
Named after
Philip William
Michel
Townshend
(1911-2000).
Tracy Place
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Source
Wigram Airfield,
Christchurch: a
collection of articles,
p 3 of article by W R
Schofield
Re-named Tower
Street. Probably
named because of
its proximity to
the Hornby Clock
Tower.
Townshend
Crescent
See
Halswell
Townshend was an
orchardist on a 12 hectare
fruit farm in Early Valley
Road, Lansdowne Valley.
A short history of
Halswell, p 111, 123
First appears in street
directories in 1983.
Redwood
Named in 1972.
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"Cul-de-sac named",
The Papanui Herald,
21 March 1972, p 2
Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Trafalgar
Street
Crescent
Road and
North
Crescent
Road.
Formerly
St Albans
Crescent Road
and North
Crescent Road.
Named because
of the bend in the
road.
Re-named
Trafalgar Street.
Named after
Admiral Nelson’s
naval victory at
the Battle of
Trafalgar.
Additional information
Source
Further information
Crescent Road is first
mentioned in the Star in
1873 in an advertisement.
Z Arch 387, When
the street was a
village, p 4
“Street names”, The
Press, 6 October 1909,
p6
First appears in street
directories in 1887.
“Advertisements”,
Star, 1 November
1873, p 1
“Street names”, The
Press, 13 September
1924, p 13
Re-named North Crescent
Road on 7 March 19041909.
Re-named Trafalgar Street
in 1909 at the suggestion of
a councillor named
Williams.
See
“Re-naming streets”,
The Press, 8 March
1904, p 5
Christchurch City
Council minute book,
June 1903-October
1904 held at
Christchurch City
Council archives.
“Street
nomenclature”, The
Press, 20 October
1909, p 4
“Street naming”, The
Press, 3 November
1909, p 3
Tralee Place
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Bishopdale
First appears in street
directories in 1977.
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Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Tramway
Lane
Hereford
Place
Travis Road
Origin of name
Named after
William Henry
Travis (1827?1910).
Suburb
Additional information
Central city
On Worcester Street just to
the west of the old
Government Buildings. It
runs to the south. The
modern central city tramway
runs along it.
Burwood,
New
Brighton
First mentioned in The Press Mairehau Road. "Avon", The Press, 6 Henry Travis 1853August 1883, p 3
1927, the W.H. Travis
in 1883.
Also Travis
Country
Estates.
Trust 1927-1987.
Appears in street directories
Avonside
First appears in street
directories in 1995.
Trecastle
Lane
Huntsbury
Formed post-1997.
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Source
Further information
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury biographies:
T368
1912-1916 with a see ref. to
Reeves Road. From 1917 it
appears as Travis Road only.
Traynor
Lane
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Broad Oaks
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Treffers
Road
Curletts
Road from
Parkhouse
Road to
Wigram
Road.
Named after
Mark Ferdinand
Treffers (1954-).
Wigram
Treffers was a swimmer
Curletts Road
who won a gold medal in the
400m individual medley
event at the 1974
Commonwealth Games in
Christchurch.
Curletts Road from
Parkhouse Road to Wigram
Road was re-named Treffers
Road on 4 June 1974.
Trent Street St James
Street
Linwood
St James Street first appears
in street directories in 1890.
Re-named Trent Street on 1
September 1948 when 120
streets were re-named.
Trices Road
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Halswell
First appears in street
directories in 1993.
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See
Source
Further information
"Park use for rugby",
The Press 5 June
1974, p 14
“Editorial”, Avenues,
Issue 15, May 2005,
p7
Gilby neighbourhood “New names for
improvement plan, p streets”, The Press, 2
9
June 1948, p 3
"Street names
changed: City
council approves
final list", The Press,
24 August 1948, p 3
“New street names”,
The Press, 24 July
1948, p 2
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Trina Place
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Named after
Trina Blogg.
Shirley
In a Blogg Brothers Ltd
subdivision.
See
First appears in street
directories in 1960.
Named after the
Church of the
Most Holy
Trinity in
Avonside.
Linwood
First appears in street
directories in 1955.
Tripp Place
Named after the
Tripp family.
Ilam
The Tripp males all attended
Christ’s College. One of
them was the school doctor
1950-1971.
One of the streets in a
subdivision formed on land
belonging to Christ's
College.
First appears in street
directories in 1981.
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Further information
Information supplied "Foremost developer
in 2007 by Kevin
and donor", The Press,
Blogg, Trina’s
22 October 2005, p D19
brother.
Named on 15 June 1960.
Trinity Lane
Source
Information on date
of naming in a letter
sent to the City
Librarian from the
Town Clerk dated 20
June 1960.
Corfe Street,
Godfrey Place,
Hare Street,
Holderness
Place, Parr
Place, Sayers
Crescent,
Tyndale Place
and Worthy
Street.
Christ's College
archives
Memoirs of L. O. H.
Tripp, written for his
“West-Watson Park”, nieces and nephews,
grand nieces and grand
The Press, 14
September 1957, p 4 nephews, p 20
“Street naming
practices”, The Press,
1 June 1957, p 4
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Trist Place
Suburb
Additional information
Edgeware
Named on 24 April 1963.
In a development advertised
for sale in The Press in
1963.
First appears in street
directories in 1966.
Troon Place
Named after the
Shirley
Royal Troon Golf
Club in Ayrshire,
Scotland.
Named because of its
proximity to the Shirley
Links, at the Christchurch
Golf Club.
In a Blogg Brothers Ltd
subdivision.
Named on 15 June 1960.
First appears in street
directories in 1964.
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See
Source
Further information
Information on date
of naming in a letter
sent to the City
Librarian from the
Town Clerk dated 29
April 1963.
“New subdivision”,
The Press, 19
October 1963, p 38
“More themes in
street names”, The
Christchurch Mail,
23 February 1999, p
6
Information on date
of naming in a letter
sent to the City
Librarian from the
Town Clerk dated 20
June 1960.
"Foremost developer
and donor", The Press,
22 October 2005, p D19
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Troup Drive
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Named after Sir
George
Alexander Troup
(1863-1941) and
his son, Gordon
Sloan Troup
(1898-1977).
Addington
Sir George Troup was an
architect who designed the
Dunedin and the Kaiapoi
Railway Stations. His son,
Gordon, was a university
liaison officer, lecturer,
railway enthusiast and writer
on railway matters.
Named in 1997. First shown
on a subdivision plan in
1999.
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See
Source
Further information
Information supplied
in 2007 by Bob
Pritchard,
subdivisions officer,
Christchurch City
Council.
“Obituary”, The Press,
6 October 1941, p 6
View the biography of
George Alexander
Troup in the Dictionary
of New Zealand
Biography.
George Troup: architect
and engineer
“Mr G. S. Troup was
well-known teacher”,
The Press, 24 October
1977, p 2
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
Truman
Road
Truman
Street
Named after
Harry S. Truman
(1884-1972).
Bryndwr
Truman was the 33rd
President of the USA 19451953.
Attlee Crescent,
Bevin Place,
Eden Place,
Evatt Street.
Waimairi County
Council minute book,
January 1947February 1949, p 571
held at Christchurch
City Council
archives.
One of a small group of
streets named after
politicians.
Also Bateman
Road.
Truman Road and Attlee
Crescent were formed on
what had been the Bateman
farm.
Further information
"Waimairi County
street names", The
Press, 23 April 1948,
p6
Name suggested by the
chairman of the Waimairi
Council Council, W. W.
Laing, on 22 April 1948.
Truman Street first appears
in street directories in 1950.
Becomes Truman Road in
1951.
Trumble
Lane
Named after
Louisa Mary
Trumble (18741955).
Huntsbury
Louisa Trumble nursed at
the Cashmere Sanatorium.
She was matron of the
Military Sanatorium 19201929 and matron of the
Tuberculosis Institution
1929-1935.
Named in 1993.
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Broad Oaks
Spreydon/Heathcote
community board
special meeting 2
December 1993
Up the hill: Cashmere
Sanatorium and
Coronation Hospital,
1910 to 1991.
“News for women,”
The Press, 28 June
1935, p 2
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Truscotts
Road
Albert Street Formerly Albert
Street. May have
been named after
Albert Charles
Truscott (1838?1910).
Re-named
Truscotts Road.
Named after
Frederick
Truscott (18741945) and his
wife, Selina
Truscott, née
Keast, (1875?1961).
Tuam Street Tuam Street
was
formerly
known as
Old Drain
Road.
Named after the
Irish (Anglican)
bishopric of
Tuam.
Suburb
Additional information
Heathcote
Valley
Frederick Truscott, a
saddler, was a resident of
Pawaho Hamlet in
Heathcote in 1905. He
farmed Truscott's Farm,
Moncks Spur, from about
1913.
His brother, William John
Truscott (1870-1941), a
farmer, was a resident of the
street in 1933 when it was
re-named Albert Street.
The farm was sold in 1963.
It was advertised as “a farm
in the city- the best of both
worlds” and offered on
behalf of the estate of F.
Truscott.
Central city, One of the original streets of
Phillipstown Christchurch named in 1850
by Captain Joseph Thomas
(b. 1803?) and Edward Jollie
(1825-1894). The names
were taken from bishoprics
listed in Burke's Peerage.
First mentioned in The
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See
Source
Further information
“Street names”, The
Press, 15 October
1932, p 14
"Mr F. Truscott", The
Press, 9 June 1945, p 8
"Street names", The
Press, 31 January
1933, p 3
Sumner to
Ferrymead: a
Christchurch history,
p 209
The Port Hills of
Christchurch, pp 75
& 87
“Outstanding
property: 148 acres
Moncks Spur”, The
Press, 19 October
1963, p 39
Reproduction of
Edward Jollie's 1850
map of the proposed
city. Department of
Lands and Survey,
Christchurch.
Historical Maps
"Advertisements",
“Obituary: Mrs F.
Truscott”, The Press, 2
December 1961, p 2
The village school that
came to town: Redcliffs
School celebrating 100
years, pp 10-11
The Estuary of
Christchurch: a history
of the Avon-Heathcote
estuary, its
communities, clubs,
controversies and
contributions, p 113
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury biographies:
J169 & T144
“Obituary”, The Press,
9 August 1894, p 5e
“Obituary”, Star, 9
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Lyttelton Times in 1852
when 1/4 acre sections are
advertised for sale there.
See
Source
The Lyttelton Times, August 1894, p 1
7 August 1852, p 2
View the biography of
Reminiscences of a
Joseph Thomas in the
surveyor, runholder
Dictionary of New
and politician in
Zealand Biography.
Canterbury and
Otago, 1841-1865,
pp 28-29
The evolution of a
city, p 13
Early days of
Canterbury, p 27
Old Christchurch in
picture and story, pp
50-51
“Street names in
Christchurch”, The
Press, 6 December
1952, p 3
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Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Tuawera
Terrace
Victoria
Terrace
Formerly Victoria Clifton
Terrace. Named
after HM Queen
Victoria (18191901).
Victoria Terrace is first
mentioned in The Press in
1926.
"Sumner items", The “New names for
Press, 17 April 1926, streets”, The Press, 2
p7
June 1948, p 3
Re-named
Tuawera Terrace.
Tuawera is the
name of the Cave
Rock at Sumner.
First appears in street
directories in 1940.
Re-named Tuawera Terrace
on 1 September 1948 when
120 streets were re-named.
"Street names
changed: City
council approves
final list", The Press,
24 August 1948, p 3
Tuckers
Road
Tucker’s
Road
Named after
George Tucker
(1829?-1880).
Suburb
Casebrook,
Redwood
Additional information
Tucker was a farmer of
North Road (later Main
North Road).
Tucker’s Road is first
mentioned in the Star in
1871 in a report of a meeting
of the Avon Road Board. It
was decided then to develop
Tucker’s Road from an
accommodation road i.e. a
route for stock.
Tuckers Road first appears
in street directories in 1900.
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See
Source
Further information
“New street names”,
The Press, 24 July
1948, p 2
“Avon Road Board”, G R Macdonald
Star, 20 April 1871, dictionary of
Canterbury biographies:
p4
T422
"Deaths", The Press, 6
October 1880, p 2
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Tucson
Place
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Named after
Tucson in
Arizona.
Burwood
In a subdivision where all
the streets were given
American placenames.
Idaho Place,
Michigan Place,
Oregon Place,
Seneca Place,
Utah Place,
Wichita Place
and Yellowstone
Crescent.
First appears in street
directories in 1991.
Tudor
Avenue
Ilam
Formed on a private
subdivision of land formerly
belonging to Henry Alfred
Leslie "Harry" Vale (18891988). Vale, a Christchurch
heating engineering pioneer,
purchased 11 acres of land
there in 1910 and later laid
out and developed 4 acres of
gardens at 203 Ilam Road.
The property extended from
Ilam Road to Waimairi
Road.
First appears in street
directories in 1972.
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Gothic Place,
Hanover Place
and Tuirau
Place.
Source
Further information
Information supplied
in 2009 by John
Vale, Harry Vale's
nephew, in an
interview with
Margaret Harper.
“Old property sold”,
The Press, 21 February
1976, p 18
"Obituary", The Press, 6
June 1988, p 3
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Tui Street
Dreumagh
Avenue
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Fendalton
Dreumagh Avenue first
appears in street directories
in 1911. It also appears on a
1912 map.
Formed on land subdivided
off Fendalton Road by
James McCombs (18731933) who was a resident of
the street in 1911. He was
born in Ireland, hence the
original Irish street name.
He was later involved in
land speculation in
Christchurch.
Tui Street is first mentioned
in The Press in 1915 when a
property on the corner of Tui
Street and Weka Road is
advertised for sale.
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See
Source
Further information
My dear girl, p 41
View the biography of
James McCombs in the
Dictionary of New
Zealand Biography.
Map of Christchurch
shewing tram routes
& public building,
1912
"Advertisements",
The Press, 1 October
1915, p 11
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Tuirau
Place
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
Ilam
Henry Alfred Leslie "Harry"
Vale (1889-1988), a
Christchurch heating
engineering pioneer,
purchased 11 acres of land
there in 1910 and later laid
out and developed 4 acres of
gardens at 203 Ilam Road.
The property extended from
Ilam Road to Waimairi
Road.
Gothic Place,
Hanover Place
and Tudor
Avenue.
Information supplied "Obituary", The Press, 6
in 2009 by John
June 1988, p 3
Vale, Harry Vale's
nephew, in an
interview with
Margaret Harper.
The street was formed on a
subdivision of his land.
Tuirau Place was formed on
the driveway into his house
which was still standing in
2009.
Page 94 of the New Zealand
Historical Atlas says that all
houses were split-level or
two-storey, and all had
garages, as the subdivision
was targeted at car-driving
professionals.
First appears in street
directories in 1966.
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Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Tulett Park
Drive
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
Named after the
main road which
passes through
the subdivision
and is opposite
Tulett Park.
Bishopdale,
Casebrook
In stages 1-4 of the Highsted
Residential subdivision. The
names were suggested by
the developer.
Shirley/Papanui
Highsted Residential
Community Board
agenda 17 December
2014
Named in 2014.
Broadstairs
Avenue, Farrelly
Place,
Faversham
Lane, Glenturret
Drive and
Grayshott
Avenue. Also
Highsted and
Tulett Park.
Tulett Park
“Street names
approved”, The
Press, 20 May 1961,
p 14
Tulett Street
Bishopdale
Named in 1961.
Tulip Lane
Spreydon
Developed at 15 Wychbury
Street.
Named in 1998.
[The developer, Michael
"Mike" Barratt had hoped
that the street would be
given a name with
connections to his family.
All his suggestions were
declined.]
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Spreydon/Heathcote
Community Board
agenda 7 April 1998
Spreydon/Heathcote
Community Board
agenda 4 August
1998
Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Tullamore
Place
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Named after
Tullamore in
County Offaly,
Ireland.
Casebrook
In the Glasnevin subdivision Glasnevin
where all the roads are
named after suburbs,
localities or features in the
vicinity of Dublin.
Named in 1998.
Tulloch
Place
Tully Lane
Named after the
developer.
George Russell
Tulloch (19092001).
Papanui
Named after
Tully in
Queensland.
North New
Brighton
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February 2016
Tulloch, an engineer, is
listed living at 56 Main
North Road in 1966.
Named in December 1966.
In a group of streets with
Australian east coast names.
Named in 1998.
Page 85 of 118
See
Source
“Aircraft bias to
street names”, The
Press, 1 April 1998,
p5
Shirley/Papanui
Community Board
agenda 1 April 1998
"Three new street
names", The Papanui
Herald, 14 December
1966, p 5
Manly Place,
Burwood/Pegasus
Noosa Place,
Community Board
Sea Eagles Place agenda July 1998
and Surfers
Place.
Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Turners
Road
Teapes Road Formerly Teapes Styx
Road. Named
after Henry Teape
(1833?-1911).
Re-named
Turners Road.
Named after
Charles Brown
Turner (18221869).
Tuscany
Place
Named after
Tuscany in Italy.
Additional information
Settling near the Styx River
says it is shown as Teapes
Road on a 1942 map.
Re-named Turners Road.
Turner and William Smart
took up the Smart and
Turners Run. The run, a
cattle station, ran from the
Styx to the Waimakariri.
Turner was a butcher with a
shop on the river between
Hereford and Cashel streets.
Beckenham
Named by Lynda Mallard
who was particularly fond of
Tuscany.
See
Source
A short history of
Belfast, 1949
The early Canterbury
runs. Christchurch, NZ,
Settling near the Styx pp 60-61
River, p 190
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury biographies:
T88 & T442
"Marriages", Star, 3
April 1909, p 5
"Sudden death of Mr
Henry Teape", The
Press, 16 January 1911,
p9
Beckenham: a suburb
of Christchurch, New
Zealand, p 16
First appears in street
directories in 1991.
Tussock
Lane
Named because
Woolston
of the tussocks on
the Port Hills.
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February 2016
In a subdivision developed
by Roc Mac Ltd.
Named in 2005.
Page 86 of 118
Further information
Hagley/Ferrymead
Community Board
agenda 13 July 2005
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Tweed
Street
Tay Street
Named after the
Richmond
Scottish river, the
Tweed.
Additional information
Tay Street first appears in
street directories in 1887.
Re-named Tweed Street on
7 March 1904.
Among a number of streets
re-named in 1904 and given
the names of place-names in
the United Kingdom.
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February 2016
Page 87 of 118
See
Source
“Re-naming streets”,
The Press, 8 March
1904, p 5
Christchurch City
Council minute book,
June 1903-October
1904 held at
Christchurch City
Council archives.
Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Twigger
Street
Westenra
Street
Named after John Addington
(sometimes
known as Jacob)
Twigger (18171885).
Additional information
See
Source
Further information
Westenra Street is first
mentioned in The Press in
1909 when the sale of the
first subdivision of the
Twigger Estate on the
Lincoln Road took place.
Hillmorton
Province of
Canterbury, New
Zealand: list of
sections purchased to
April 30, 1863, p 4
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury biographies:
T489
Re-named Twigger Street by
the Waimairi County
Council on 8 February 1933,
although “Twigger Street –
see Lincoln Road” appears
in street directories from
1913.
John Twigger was the heir
of the Rev. Joseph Twigger
(1802-1855) who purchased
Rural Sections 128 & 132,
300 acres on the Lower
Lincoln Road near
Christchurch.
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February 2016
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“The new
Agricultural
Showgrounds”, Star,
11 June 1885, p 4
“Deaths”, Star, 9
November 1885, p 2
“Local & General”,
Star, 9 November
1885, p 3
"Land sale", The
Press, 26 November
1909, p 9
"Streets renamed",
The Press, 9
February 1933, p 15
Beyond the city: the
land and its people,
Riccarton, Waimairi,
Paparua, p 15
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Twynham
Place
Former
name
Origin of name
Named after
Twynham in
Hampshire.
Suburb
Aranui
Additional information
See
He farmed in Lincoln Road,
donated six acres of land where the entrance to the
showgrounds was off
Lincoln Road - and also sold
land - to the Canterbury
Agricultural and Pastoral
Association for what was,
for a long time, their
showgrounds.
Waimairi County
Council, minute
book, 1931-1936, p
308, held at
Christchurch City
Council archives.
In an area where all the
streets are named after
places in the county of
Hampshire. There is a
Christchurch city and a
River Avon in Hampshire.
“New streets in
Christchurch”, The
Press, 28 June 1955,
p6
Named in 1955.
Tyndale
Place
Ilam
One of the streets in a
subdivision formed on land
belonging to Christ's
College.
First appears in street
directories in 1981.
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February 2016
Source
Page 89 of 118
Corfe Street,
Godfrey Place,
Hare Street,
Holderness
Place, Parr
Place, Sayers
Crescent, Tripp
Place and
Worthy Street.
Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Tyne Street
Smith Street Formerly Smith
Street. Named
after Albert
George Smith
(1847?-1914).
Suburb
Additional information
Addington
Smith was the Locomotive
Anderson Street
Superintendent at Riccarton. and Lowe
Street.
Some of the streets in the
Re-named Tyne
Street.
vicinity of the Addington
Railway Workshops are
named after railway
employees.
Smith Street first appears in
street directories in 1900.
See
Source
Further information
Beyond the city: the
land and its people,
Riccarton, Waimairi,
Paparua, p 80
“Changes in
Riccarton street
names”, The Press,
28 September 1948,
p6
Re-named Tyne Street on 27
September 1948.
Tyrone
Street
Howard
Street
Formerly Howard Belfast
Street. Named
after a street in
the business area
of Belfast,
Ireland.
Re-named Tyrone
Street. Named
after County
Tyrone,on the
west of Northern
Ireland.
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February 2016
Formed when the area was
first subdivided in 1882.
A short history of
Belfast, 1949
Howard Street is first
mentioned in the Star in
1892 when a property there
is advertised for sale.
“Advertisements”,
Star, 25 April 1892,
p4
Re-named Tyrone Street in
June 1948 when 24 streets in
the Waimairi County were
re-named.
Both names continue the
Irish theme of street names
in Belfast.
Page 90 of 118
"Street names
changed", The Press,
25 June 1948, p 9
"Street names changed",
The Press, 25 June
1948, p 6
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Uldale Place
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Named after
Uldale, a small
village in
Cumbria,
England.
Westmorland Named to continue the
theme in the subdivision of
naming streets after places
in historic Westmorland in
England, since 1974 part of
Cumbria.
See
Source
Westmorland
The Port Hills of
Christchurch, p 248
Jean Batten
Place, Kingsford
Street, Mascot
Place, Moncrieff
Place, Tasman
Place and
Viscount Place.
Information on date
of naming in a letter
sent to the City
Librarian from the
Town Clerk dated 26
February 1962.
First appears in street
directories in 1996.
Ulm Place
Named after
Charles Thomas
Philippe Ulm
(1897-1934).
Burwood
Ulm was an Australian
aviator who helped pioneer
flying in Australia. During
the late 1920s he flew with
fellow Australian, Sir
Charles Kingsford Smith.
Continues the aviation
theme of street names in the
area.
Named on 21 February
1962.
First appears in street
directories in 1964.
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February 2016
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Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Ulster Place
Suburb
Additional information
Central city
In 1892 an application was
sent to the council asking for
it to take over "a private
street turning out of Taylor's
Lane” (later Aberdeen
Street).
See
Source
Further information
"City Council", Star,
5 April 1892, p 1
First appears in street
directories in 1914.
Union Street Richmond
Terrace was
incorporated
into Union
Street.
Named to show
New
the location of the Brighton
union of two
‘towns’ in 1870s
New Brighton:
Oramstown and
Rainestown.
The section from
Jervois Street to
Bridge Street was
formerly
Richmond
Terrace. Named
after Richmond
Villa, a villa built
there by Thomas
Raine (18201907) which he in
turn named after
his former home
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Oramstown was near the
Kibblewhite
beach, on the right side of
Street and
Seaview Road as one
Owles Terrace.
crosses the New Brighton
bridge. This commemorates
the ownership of the area by
the hotelkeeper George
Oram (1826-1876).
Rainestown was on the right
side of Seaview Road but
back towards the river.
Named after soda water
manufacturer Thomas
“Gingerpop” Raine (18201907).
Union Street was formed in
1890 and first appears in
street directories in 1914.
Richmond Terrace appeared
Page 92 of 118
“New Brighton
Notes”, Star, 28
August 1890, p 3
Information about
the date of Richmond
Terrace supplied in
2010 by Bob
Pritchard,
subdivisions officer,
Christchurch City
Council.
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury biographies:
R21 & O95
“Deaths”, Star, 3 June
1907, p 3
“Street names”, The
Press, 6 October 1909,
p6
“New names for
streets”, The Press, 2
“Street naming”, The
June 1948, p 3
Press, 3 November
“New street names”,
1909, p 3
The Press, 24 July
“Early New
1948, p 2
Brighton”, The Star,
20 May 1922, p 8
“Naming of streets
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
in Richmond,
Yorkshire.
Additional information
originally on Deposit Plan
100 dated May 1876.
First appears in street
directories in 1885.
Became part of Union Street
on 1 September 1948 when
120 streets were re-named.
See
Source
Further information
linked with early
efforts to popularise
seaside resort”,
Pegasus Post, 5
March 1975, p 1
New Brighton: a
regional history,
1852-1970, pp 64 &
65
"Street names
changed: City
council approves
final list", The Press,
24 August 1948, p 3
Upham
Terrace
Named after Dr
Charles Hazlitt
Upham (18631950).
Lyttelton
Dr Upham practised for
many years in Lyttelton.
“The new road in the upper
portion of the town between
Cornwall Road and Jacksons
Road” was named Upham
Terrace on 1 February 1937.
First appears in street
directories in 1947.
Upland
Road
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Hoon Hay
First appears in street
directories in 1953.
Page 93 of 118
The first 100 years :
municipal
government in
Lyttelton, p 15
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury biographies:
U6
“The weather in
January”, The Press,
2 February 1937, p
21
“Death of Dr C. H.
Upham”, The Press, 1
August 1950, p 8
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Upper
Church
Road
Suburb
Additional information
Little River
The street name was
changed to Little River
Cemetery Road in 2001,
without consultation with
residents.
See
Source
Further information
Report of the
Akaroa/Wairewa
Community Board to
the council meeting
of 20 July 2006
Name change reversed in
2006 at the request of
residents.
Urihia
Street
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February 2016
Marshland
Named by Ngāi Tahu
Property Group, developer
of the subdivision.
Page 94 of 118
Prestons
Prestons
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Urunga
Avenue
Hancocks
Road
Strowan
Formerly
Hancocks Road.
Named after
Thomas Hancock
(1813?-1898).
Re-named
Urunga Road.
Named after
Urunga, the house
at 51 Normans
Road owned by
Samuel Rollin
Webb (18481933). Urunga
means: a place of
peace.
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February 2016
Suburb
Additional information
Source
Further information
Hancocks Road first appears Brenchley
in street directories in 1903. Avenue
Papanui Heritage
Group
Hancock was a grocer, soap
manufacturer and brewer.
He bought land in Normans
Road in 1879. After his
death, his daughters, Julia
(1854-1934) and Emily
Clara (1857?-1937), stayed
on in the family home in
Hancocks Road until 1927.
"Advertisements",
The Press, 8 January
1927, p 23
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury biographies:
H 116 & W279
Re-named Urunga Avenue
in 1927. It is described as "a
new road known as Urunga
Avenue" in The Press in
1927. It was formed by
Samuel Webb. Webb was a
mayor of Lyttelton who
moved to 51 Normans Road
in 1913.
Page 95 of 118
See
"Advertisements",
The Press, 16 April
1927, p 24
“Deaths”, Star, 20
August 1898, p 4
“Mr Thomas Hancock”,
Star, 19 August 1898, p
3
Thomas Hancock 18131898 : his ancestry and
his descendants, p 14
"A resident for 60
years", The Papanui
Herald, 22 August
1972, p 5 [An interview
with Adelaide Ivy
Webb (1894?-1983), a
descendant of Samuel
Webb. There is a
photograph of Urunga
in the article.]
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
He named his house there
Urunga, after his former
home in Lyttelton which
was named by a Māori chief
because of the hospitality
shown to the Māori by the
Webb family on the walk
from Lyttelton to Rapaki.
Utah Place
Named after
Utah, a state of
the United States
of America.
Utility Alley
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February 2016
Burwood
In a subdivision where all
the streets were given
American placenames.
First appears in street
directories in 1991.
North New
Brighton
First appears in street
directories in 1991.
Page 96 of 118
Idaho Place,
Michigan Place,
Oregon Place,
Seneca Place,
Tucson Place,
Wichita Place
and Yellowstone
Crescent.
Source
Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Uxbridge
Street
Vagues
Road
Vague’s
Road
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
Named after
Uxbridge High
Street railway
station in
Uxbridge,
England.
Redwood,
Northcote
One of a group of streets
named after London railway
stations. The Main North
Railway passes right by the
area.
Aldgate Street,
Camden Street,
Ealing Street,
Fenchurch
Street,
Grosvenor
Street, Lambeth
Crescent and
Paddington
Street.
“New streets in
Christchurch”, The
Press, 28 June 1955,
p6
Named after
Edmund Vague
(1848-1923).
Northcote
Named in 1955.
Vague lived in Papanui for a
time and for many years was
choirmaster at the Methodist
Church there.
First mentioned in the Star
in 1877 in a report of a
meeting of the Avon Road
Board.
First appears in street
directories in 1894.
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February 2016
Page 97 of 118
Further information
Settling near the Styx “Obituary”, The Press,
River, p 89
5 May 1923, p 7
“Road Boards”, Star, [Vague’s name is
wrongly spelt there as
1 March 1877, p 3
Vogue.]
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury biographies:
V1
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Vahsel Bay
Place
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Named after
Wigram
Vahsel Bay in the
Weddell Sea,
Antarctica.
Additional information
See
Source
The developer chose Sir
Ernest Shackelton's transAntarctic expedition 19141917, as the theme of the
subdivision. Vahsel Bay was
one of the drop-off points
for stores.
Endurance Lane,
James Caird
Lane, Milano
Lane, Platinum
Drive and
Wiersma Lane.
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 15 July 2014
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
minutes 15 July 2014
In the Eelco Wiersma
subdivision at 141-185
Awatea Road.
Named in 2014.
Vaila Place
Named after
Vaila, one of the
Shetland Islands
of Scotland.
Woolston
The Thomson family
emigrated to Stewart Island
in the 1860s from Vaila. A
descendant is a director of
the company that carried out
the subdivision.
Named in 2013.
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Hagley/Ferrymead
Community Board
agenda 5 June 2013
Hagley/Ferrymead
Community Board
minutes 5 June 2013
Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Named after Noel Wigram
Lancelot St Elmo
Vale (18981981).
Vale
Terrace
Additional information
See
Source
Further information
Vale was a motor engineer
of Riccarton. He graduated
from the Canterbury Flying
School on 7 May 1918.
Wigram Skies
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 4 September
2012
Great Britain, Royal
Aero Club Aviators’
Certificates, 1910-1950
as found on
www.ancestry.com
In the Wigram Aerodrome
subdivision by Ngāi Tahu
Property Ltd where the
street names are either of
aircraft or taken from the list
of the first 100 students at
the Flight School established
by Sir Henry Wigram in
1917.
The Canterbury (NZ)
Aviation Co. Ltd: the
first one hundred pilots
Wigram Skies
Named in 2012.
Valencia
Lane
Valencia
Avenue
Named after
Mount
Valencia, a city in Pleasant
Spain.
In a group of streets with
Spanish names.
Named by the developer,
Bernard Blogg, of the firm
Blogg Brothers Ltd. He
hoped that Spanish-style
houses would be built.
Valencia Avenue first
appears in street directories
in 1983. Becomes Valencia
Lane in 1987.
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February 2016
Page 99 of 118
Cadiz Road,
Soleares Avenue
and Toledo
Place.
The Port Hills of
Christchurch, p 95
Additional
information supplied
in 2008 by Bede
Cosgriff (d. 2011) in
an interview with
Margaret Harper.
"Foremost developer
and donor", The Press,
22 October 2005, p D19
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Valiant
Road
Suburb
Additional information
Hornby
In the Wigram Aerodrome
Wigram Skies
subdivision by Ngāi Tahu
Property Ltd where the
street names are either of
aircraft or taken from the list
of the first 100 students at
the Flight School established
by Sir Henry Wigram in
1917.
The developers advised that
as they were running out of
Flying School personnel
names they were now using
aircraft names.
Named in 2013.
Valley Road
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February 2016
Cashmere
First appears in street
directories in 1914.
Page 100 of 118
See
Source
Further information
Riccarton/Wigram
Wigram Skies
Community Board
agenda 5 March 2013
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Van
Ameyde
Courts
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Named after Bert
van Ameyde
(1932?-2014).
Additional information
Named after the original
developer.
A complex of eleven
retirement cottages
developed at 51 Cornwall
Street. As it is similar to
some of the Christchurch
City Council’s housing
complexes, “Courts” was
used rather than “Lane”.
See
Source
Further information
Shirley/Papanui
Community Board
agenda 20 August
2014
Shirley/Papanui
Community Board
minutes 20 August
2014
Named in 2014.
Van Asch
Street
Queen Street Named after
Gerritt van Asch
(1836-1908).
Sumner
Queen Street first appears in
street directories in 1914.
Re-named van Asch Street
on 1 September 1948 when
120 streets were re-named.
Van Asch was the first
principal of the School for
the Deaf in 1880.
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February 2016
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"Street names
changed: City
council approves
final list", The Press,
24 August 1948, p 3
"Obituary", Star, 6
March 1908, p 3
Sumner, pp 23 & 41-42
“New names for
streets’, The Press, 2
June 1948, p 3
“New street names”,
The Press, 24 July
1948, p 2
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Vancouver
Crescent
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Named after
Wainoni
Vancouver, a city
located on the
west coast of
British Columbia
in Canada.
Additional information
One of a number of streets
in a subdivision between
Ottawa Road, Pages Road
and Cuffs Road given
Canadian place names.
Baffin Street,
Huron Street,
Niagara Street,
Ontario Place,
Quebec Place
and Winnipeg
Named because Canadian
engineers and workers lived Place. Also
in the area while working for Ottawa Road.
Henry J. Kaiser Co of USA
and building the Lyttelton
road tunnel. Houses were
built for them by Fletcher
Construction. After the
tunnel was opened in 1964,
the Canadians went home
and their houses were sold to
locals.
OR
Another suggestion is that
the streets were named
because they were near
Ottawa Road.
Named in 1959.
First appears in street
directories in 1962.
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February 2016
See
Page 102 of 118
Source
Further information
“Chester Street West “Tunnel’s first blast
or Cranmer
celebrated”, The Press,
Terrace?”, The Press, 22 July 2011, p A7
28 April 1959, p 7
Information supplied
in 2005 by Tim
Baker in an interview
with Margaret
Harper.
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Van Dieman
Close
Vangelis
Lane
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Named after Van
Dieman, a
harness race
horse.
Templeton
Van Dieman won the New
Zealand Trotting Cup in
1951.
Named after
Mairehau
Vangelis (1943-).
Formed post-1997.
Vangelis is the composer of
the stirring “Conquest of
Paradise”, used by the
Canterbury Crusaders as
their theme.
Developed at 24 Fernbrook
Place.
Named in 2000.
Vanguard
Drive
A vanguard is the Broomfield,
leading part of an Hei Hei
advancing
military
formation.
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February 2016
First appears in street
directories in 1979.
Page 103 of 118
See
Source
“More themes in
street names”, The
Christchurch Mail,
23 February 1999, p
6
Shirley/Papanui
Community Board
agenda 31 May 2000
Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Vardon
Crescent
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Named after
Harry Vardon
(1870-1937).
Shirley
Vardon was an American
golfer who won six US Golf
Open Championships.
Named because of its
proximity to the Shirley
Links, at the Christchurch
Golf Club.
In a Blogg Brothers Ltd
subdivision.
Named on 15 June 1960.
See
Source
Further information
“More themes in
street names”, The
Christchurch Mail,
23 February 1999, p
6
"Foremost developer
and donor", The Press,
22 October 2005, p D19
Information on date
of naming in a letter
sent to the City
Librarian from the
Town Clerk dated 20
June 1960.
First appears in street
directories in 1964.
Vaughan
Way
Named after
Redwood
Vaughan, the son
of one of the
developers of the
subdivision who
died at an early
age.
Vega Place
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Heathcote
In the Redwood Springs
subdivision.
Named in 2002.
First appears in street
directories in 1987.
Page 104 of 118
Shirley/Papanui
Community Board
agenda 3 July 2002
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Veitches
Road
Veitches
Named after
Road,
William Veitch
Veitch’s
(1845?-1928).
Road and
Veitch Road.
Suburb
Additional information
Bishopdale,
Casebrook
First appears in street
directories in 1906 as
Veitches Road. William and
his son, Thomas Robert
Veitch (1877-1951), both
farmers, are residents.
See
Source
"Fed up with road
name confusion",
The Papanui Herald,
5 July 1988, p 1
From 1906-1962 it becomes
Veitchs Road.
From 1964 it is Veitch
Road.
In 1988 it reverted to
Veitches Road at the request
of residents because of
confusion with Beach Road.
Velsheda
Street
Named after the
Velsheda, a
racing yacht.
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Bexley
In the Pacific Park
subdivision.
Named in 1997.
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Burwood/Pegasus
Community Board
agenda 3 November
1997
Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Ventnor
Crescent
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Named after
Ventnor, a town
on the Isle of
Wight, England.
Aranui
In an area where all the
streets are named after
places in the county of
Hampshire. There is a
Christchurch city and a
River Avon in Hampshire.
See
Source
Further information
Information on date
of naming in a letter
sent to the City
Librarian from the
Town Clerk dated 17
March 1961.
Named on 15 March 1961.
First appears in street
directories in 1968.
Vernon
Terrace
Named after
Helen Vernon
Morten, née
Downes, (1834?1906).
Hillsborough Helen Morten was the wife
of Richard May Morten
(1823-1909), a sheepfarmer.
In the 1880s Morten
subdivided land in St
Martins, land which he had
previously farmed.
First appears in street
directories in 1906.
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G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury biographies:
M652
“Death”, Star, 15
February 1906, p 3
“Mr R. M Morten”, The
Press, 21 August 1909,
p 10g
“St Martins has links
with early days in
London”, The Press, 7
December 1974, p 12
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Veronica
Place
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Named after
Veronica Hobby
(1935?-2004).
Bishopdale
Veronica Hobby, a musician
and housewife, was the wife
of Martin Patrick Hobby
(1929-2007), Harewood
riding member for the
Waimairi County Council
from 1965.
See
Source
Further information
“Housing complex
opened”, The
Papanui Herald, 12
December 1978, p 6
First appears in street
directories in 1981.
Fendalton
First appears in street
directories in 1955.
Named after
Vesper, a variety
of Delamain
Cognac.
Yaldhurst
In the Delamain subdivision. Delamain
Via Maris is
Latin for sea
view.
Redcliffs
Verran
Place
Vesper Lane
Via Maris
Way
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Named in 2007.
In a subdivision developed
by Roc Mac Ltd.
Named in 2005.
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Riccarton/Wigram
Delamain cognac
Community Board
Transport and
Roading Committee
agenda 29 June 2007
Hagley/Ferrymead
Community Board
agenda 13 July 2005
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Vickerys
Road
Vickery's
Road
Named after John Wigram
Vickery (1815?1893).
Additional information
Vickery emigrated, under
engagement to John Shand,
on the Isabella Hercus in
1851. He became a land
owner and farmer at
Riccarton and Sockburn. He
died at his property, Hendley
Farm, Upper Riccarton.
Tenders were invited by the
Spreydon Road Boad for the
formation of Vickery's Road
in 1875.
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See
Source
Further information
Information supplied
in 2008 by a
descendant, Joan
Parke of Sydenham,
in an interview with
Richard Greenaway.
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury biographies:
V34
"Deaths", The Press, 12
August 1893, p 1
"Advertisements",
Isabella Hercus: the
The Press, 30 August sixth ship
1875, p 1
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Victoria
Street
Part of
Papanui
Road and
Whately
Road.
Formerly
Whately Road.
Named after
Richard Whately
(1787-1863).
Central city
Whately was Archbishop of
Dublin and a member of the
Canterbury Association
from 1848.
One of the original streets of
Christchurch named in 1850
by Captain Joseph Thomas
(b. 1803?) and Edward Jollie
(1825-1894). The names
were taken from bishoprics
listed in Burke's Peerage.
Re-named
Victoria Street.
Named after HM
Queen Victoria
(1819-1901).
First mentioned in The
Lyttelton Times in 1852
when 1/4 acre sections are
advertised for sale there.
Re-named Victoria Street in
1877 after George Gould
presented a petition signed
by 61 residents asking that
the name be changed.
Whately Road is still being
referred to in the Star in
1886.
Victors
Road
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Hoon Hay
First appears in street
directories in 1957.
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See
Source
Further information
Reproduction of
Edward Jollie's 1850
map of the proposed
city. Department of
Lands and Survey,
Christchurch.
Historical Maps
The Canterbury
Association: a study of
its members’
connections, p 104
"Advertisements",
The Lyttelton Times,
7 August 1852, p 2
Early days of
Canterbury, p 88
Christchurch City
Council minute book,
22 October 1877,
held at Christchurch
City Council
archives.
“City Council”, Star,
13 July 1886, p 4
"Whately Road, an
old name that has
been lost", Star, 7
August 1929
Victoria Square: cradle
of Christchurch
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Vienna
Street
Part of
Thackeray
Street.
Named after
Waltham
William
Makepeace
Thackeray (18111863).
Re-named Vienna
Street. Named
after the city of
Vienna because
Thackeray
supposedly had
connections with
this city.
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Suburb
Additional information
See
In 1981 the Brougham Street Thackeray
expressway extension cut
Street
several streets in two. One
of these was Thackeray
Street. The council decided
to change the name of the
southern part of the street to
Makepeace Street after
Thackeray's middle name
but residents objected as
they thought the name
would be open to ridicule.
Vienna Street first appears
in street directories in 1987.
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Source
“Name change”, The
Press, 27 November
1982, p 2
Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Vili Place
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Named after the
Woolston
Reverend
Tumama Vili and
his wife,
Elisapeta.
Additional information
The Vilis arrived from
Samoa in December 1985.
Under their leadership, the
Samoan Congregational
Christian Church purchased
land on the corner of
Linwood Avenue and Dyers
Road and built all the church
buildings. The church was
opened in June 1998. The
congregation wished to
name the street after the
Vilis so they would always
be remembered.
See
Source
Further information
Hagley/Ferrymead
Community Board
Agenda 18 March
2009
“A place to nurture
community, spirit”, The
Press, 26 June 1998, p 8
“Villa Grove a new
exciting
subdivision”, The
Press, 5 November
1992, p 32-33
Horncastle Homes
The cul de sac provides
access to the church.
Named in 2009.
Villa Grove
Named because
Ilam
of its proximity to
Villa Maria
College, at 40
Brodie Street.
Developer Kathryn
Horncastle said at the time:
“Villa means house in the
suburbs, and a grove is a
tree-lined street”. Villa
Grove was Horncastle
Homes’ sixth residential
development.
Named in 1992.
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“Subdivisions
planned with care”,
The Press, 2
December 1993
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Village Lane
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Named because
Halswell
the area around
the intersection of
Halswell Road
and Sparks Road
was for many
years known
locally as
Halswell Village.
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Additional information
Named in 2003.
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See
Source
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 1 October
2003
Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Vincent
Place
Church
Named after
Road (later Richard Vincent
Vincent
(d. 1888).
Street),
Station Road
(later Lucas
Street) and
Railway
Terrace.
Suburb
Additional information
Opawa
Vincent was a farmer of
Opawa. In 1887 he
advertised part of Rural
Section 20 for sale in the
Star. This was in between
“Ferry Road and
Heathcote”, land originally
purchased by B.W.
Mountfort.
Church Road, Railway
Terrace and Station Road
first appear in street
directories in 1892, all in the
vicinity of the Lyttelton
railway (later Opawa
Railway Station).
Church Road was re-named
Vincent Street and Station
Road was re-named Lucas
Street on 24 May 1926.
Vincent Street, Railway
Terrace and Lucas Street
were combined to form
Vincent Place in 1929.
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See
Source
Further information
“Advertisements”,
Star, 7 March 1887,
p2
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury biographies:
V41
“Advertisements”,
The Press, 28 May
1926, p 17
“Street names”, The
Press, 3 September
1929, p 9
“Street names”, The
Press, 22 February
1926, p 10
“Street names”, The
Press, 26 May 1926, p
11
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Vintners
Lane
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Named because
Woolston
the German
couple who
owned the
property for many
years grew grapes
in glasshouses on
the property.
Northcote
Virgil Place
Additional information
The development company,
Opawa Residential Ltd,
wanted to recognise this in
the name of the right-ofway, developed at 83 & 85
Mackenzie Avenue.
Named in 2007.
See
Source
Further information
Hagley/Ferrymead
Community Board
agenda 11 July 2007
Report of the
Hagley/Ferrymead
Community Board to
the Council meeting
of 16 August 2007
Developed for state housing.
First appears in street
directories in 1957.
Virtue Place
Named after Neil
Virtue Jack.
Bishopdale
His father, Herbert Jack
(1901-1975), a tomato
grower, bought the land in
1933. It was first subdivided
when 2½ acres were taken
by the Government in the
1950s for £300 per acre.
Neil Jack and his wife,
Hazel, subdivided the rest of
the market garden into
eleven sections in 1997. The
old homestead remained.
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Information supplied “Market garden
in 2007 by Keith
recalled”, The Press, 29
McNeil, a resident of October 1997, p 43
Virtue Place, in an
interview with
Margaret Harper.
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Viscount
Place
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Named after the
Viscount, a type
of aeroplane.
Burwood
The name continues the
aviation theme of street
names in the area.
Jean Batten
Place, Kingsford
Street, Mascot
Place, Moncrieff
Place, Tasman
Place and Ulm
Place.
First appears in street
directories in 1972.
Vista Place
Vivian
Street
Named after
Reginald Gordon
Vivian Muirson
(1913-1990).
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Huntsbury
First appears in street
directories in 1991.
Burwood
Muirson was a builder of
"spec" houses in the 1940s,
1950s and 1960s.
First appears in street
directories in 1957.
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Edna Street,
Glenrowan
Avenue,
Reginald Place,
Sharlick Street
and Woolley
Street.
Source
Information
researched during the
1970s by Guy Bliss,
a teacher and local
historian.
Muirson’s dates
supplied in 2008 by
Marie Shears,
formerly Woolley.
Further information
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Voelas Road
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Named after
Voelas in
Denbighshire,
North Wales.
Lyttelton
Charlotte Griffith Wynne
(1821-1907) married John
Robert Godley in 1846 and
accompanied him to
Canterbury. According to
family information she was
born at Voelas.
First mentioned in The
Lyttelton Times in 1851
when land for sale there is
advertised.
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See
Source
Further information
The story of
Lyttelton, 18491949, p 35
View the biography of
Charlotte Godley in the
Dictionary of New
Zealand Biography.
Lyttelton: port and
town : an illustrated
history, p 30
"Advertisements",
The Lyttelton Times,
4 October 1851, p 4
Letters from early New
Zealand 1850-1853
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Named after John Richmond
Vogel Street Tweed
street, from Conrad Vogel
Vogel street (1833-1910).
to Forth
street, was
incorporated
into Vogel
Street.
Additional information
Vogel was a baker and came
to New Zealand in 1859. He
farmed a block of land
fronting onto Worcester
Street between the East Belt
and Stanmore Road.
First appears in the Star in
1881 when land for sale in
Vogel Street, Bingsland is
advertised.
First appears in street
directories in 1887.
Tweed street, from Vogel
street to Forth street, was renamed Vogel street on 24
May 1926.
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See
Source
Further information
Palmers of the wild
east: from
Kidderminster to
New Brighton, pp
190-191
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury biographies:
V56
“Street names”, The
Press, 22 February
“Advertisements”,
Star, 29 June 1881, p 1926, p 10
2
“Street names”, The
“Advertisements”,
Press, 26 May 1926, p
The Press, 28 May
11
1926, p 17
Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Voss Street
Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Named after
Johann Voss
(1867?-1951).
Shirley
Voss was the son of
immigrants, Johann and
Lena Voss, and married
Rosanna Mills in 1887. He
was a primary school
teacher at such places as
Ashley, Tai Tapu, Lyttelton
and Marshland and was also
involved in mutual
improvement associations.
He was a local preacher in
the Methodist Church and
while at Marshland was
active in the North
Canterbury Potato Growers'
Association. His son, Ronald
John, was awarded the
Military Medal in World
War I.
First appears in street
directories in 1960.
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See
Source
Further information
"Marshland Patriotic
Guild", The Press, 20
May 1916, p 11
"Military honours", The
Press, 30 April 1919, p
6
"Marshland School",
The Press, 6 October
1919, p 4
"Marshland", The Press,
13 March 1920, p 10